Dr Pepper

I love the fact that Dr Pepper is readily available here; not necessarily in all of the restaurants, but nearly everywhere. I try not to drink it too often, it's really not good for me.. but tonight is a night of indulgence :) After eating chicken lo mein from Sea Asian, I'm having my DP with a small chocolate bar from Jacques Torres, while watching movies with my roomie. It's really a great end to a great weekend, and hopefully a good kick-off to the week.

On Saturday, after the chocolate shop, a few of us girls went into Manhattan to try to get tickets to Phantom. They didnt have standing room at that point, so we stepped over to Les Miserables. There we secured the last three standing room tickets for myself, Nat, and Erika. Our original intent was to get student tickets to Les Miz, and that might have been a better idea in the long run, but other than standing for three hours and not being able to see the very top of the set (the slanted balcony roof above us sucked), I still thoroughly enjoyed the musical.

Before attending the play, we headed to Little Italy with Ruth for some dinner at Le Mela. The food was wonderful and it led into the great experience at Les Miz. The singing was phenomenal, the props were spectacular.. and two of the actors extremely good looking ;) Afterwards, Erika bought a poster and I bought mug and still we payed less than the people sitting in the back of the orchestra who had the same view as us. Once we made our purchases, we moved outside to get some pics. Soon the cast started filing out and I was able to get all of the main characters (who came out) to sign Erika's poster. The woman who played Fantine was the singing voice for Princess Jasmine and Mulan in the Disney movie, she was pretty great! We also got a photo with Marius (one of the good-looking guys).

Sunday was lazy until the early evening. Then Erika and I got dressed up to go to the Edward Scissorhands ballet with Stephen at BAM. It was a little corny, but we all enjoyed it nonetheless. Afterwards we walked down to Veliis for a nice dinner, at which time Hunter met up with us. It was a fun night.