Day 12--October 26--Providence to New York

Today is going to be a long drive as we take 95 along the entire Connecticut coast.  Foliage continues to be pretty but not as spectacular as it might have been a week earlier.  We stopped in Old Greenwich, CT for lunch and then headed into New York.  A wrong turn took us through sections we would not have seen otherwise :)  We ended up at the hotel late in the afternoon.  Thanks to Randi and David's son Darren, our rental car return was just around the corner so David dropped us with all the luggage and went to drop the car off.  After a brief time to get organized and rest a little in our rooms we headed out into the city.  Our hotel was the Doubletree/Hilton on Lexington so we walked from there down through Times Square to the theater district.  We even had time to visit the Times Square Visitors Center and watched a short movie on the history of the square.  Took photos of the Centennial Ball as it changed colors high above the square.  After dinner at a Japanese restaurant we headed over to the theater to see Spiderman.  The show was very different--I loved the staging--the sets were constantly moving and changing to accomadate the high flying spidermen and the villain perched on top of the Chrysler Building.  The music was done by Bono.  Parts of it were very campy and the high flying actors were amazing.  It's probably not a show that most theater goers would love but I thought it was fun and as a former Geometry teacher, loved the perspective as the sets changed.  After the show we hiked back to our hotel.