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Postcards From Spring Break: NYC (Day 4) Ellis Island, Mary Poppins and Times Square

Our biggest day in NYC also is our biggest thrill.

We stood in line at the TKTS booth at the South Street Seaport, deciding on Mary Poppins because Lion King wasn't available, and we're glad we did. We got tickets for half price and ended up in the fourth row orchestra. Wow. The New Amsterdam Theater is amazing, and the show was, well, "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"

After we bought tickets, we had lunch in the Wall Street area and did the Ellis Island tour. Our only disappointment there is that I couldn't remember the names of the ancestors who went through, so we couldn't find the ship's records on the computer. After we got back on Manhattan Island, we took the subway to 42nd Street and met my sister, Tinya, and brother-in-law, Bob, for dinner at DB Bistro Moderne, which is Daniel Boulud's "renouned comteporary version of the Parisian classic" bistro.

After the show—which I'm sure the kids will say was the highlight of the trip—we took a stroll through Times Square. To say it's changed since my days in New York would be a gross understatement. The lights and the glamour are spectacular.

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