Mary and I popped down to New York to see one of my west coast compadres and to catch a show with him and his wife (no names...protecting the innocent :-).

The Trip

We originally wanted to take Amtrak from Wells to NYC, but it was far too expensive and would have been a very long ride. We opted to drive to CT on Friday, stay overnight and head into NYC on the train on Saturday. We stayed at the Trumbull Marriott, which turned out to be a very nice hotel with very modern rooms, extremely friendly and capable staff and a well-prepared breakfast buffet. The train ride in was incident-free and the Washington Jefferson Hotel (right near the theatre district) had equally as capable staff and very decent accommodations. I highly recommend both establishments if you find yourself in need of respite near either locale.

The drive down on Friday was extremely tiring, but the jaunt back on Sunday was as pleasant as a 3-4hour drive up through New England can get.

The Show

We saw Wicked, which is prequel and adaptation of the story of the Wizard of Oz (subtitle is "The untold story of the witches of Oz". To briefly summarize it, the story starts at the point where the Wicked Witch of the West has just died with the Good Witch Glinda appearing and being asked to explain how the Wicked Witch got to be wicked. The writers take some liberty with the original Oz elements (as the two become intertwined pretty quickly), but did a decent job creating the backstory.