Wicked Shopping

Wicked Shopping
New York, NY

New York, NY

Well it’s more like Shopping, and Wicked. Started the day with our first excursion on the Subway. It’s not too confusing, or maybe we just fluked it. It’s kinda weird how none of the platforms are numbered, you just find your letter and the direction (uptown or downtown). For us, it was the E train, downtown. Fifteen or so minutes later we’d travelled from 34th street right down to Chambers, near the World Trade Centre. And also, nearer still to Century 21 Department Store. They must have known I was coming because right at the entrance we went in, lay many hundreds of watches at ridiculous prices, all looking for a good home. I was very well behaved and only picked up one. So far. 🙂 Actually, one of the delightful things about New Yorkers is that so many are quite unafraid to have their own style, and wear it well. As opposed to just slavishly following whatever the trend is this week. The prices at century 21 were sometimes jaw-dropping. $25 Levi jeans, $11 van heusen business shirts, it was all pretty amazing. I picked up a Calvin Klein business shirt for under $25. I wasn’t surprised to see some people lugging two baskets around crammed to the gills – and there was one enterprising young gentleman who bought a heap of stuff, along with a truly massive suitcase in which to stuff it! We were a little more restrained – but gave the travel money card a little bit of a bashing. We may well be back for another go later.

The exciting part of the day was still to come, though. Time to finally hit Broadway to see our first show – Perry’s somewhat belated birthday present, Wicked. Sure enough, it was a fantastic show, really enjoyed it.