whoops, a whole week went by...

how did that happen? OK so when i last left you it was saturday afternoon - my parents arrived in New York on Saturday night, and we had a lazy night in - delightful!
On Sunday afternoon we went to a matinee of Wicked - ahhhhmazing of course! it was the first time my mum and sister had seen it (me and dad saw it last year), and they loved it, so they can stay in the family - *phew* - Anna Gasteyer (from SNL and the mum from Mean Girls) was playing the lead, and she rocked.
Seeing as the theatre is closed on Mondays (oh no!) we spent the day shopping (and i MEAN shopping. Saks fifth avenue, bloomingdales, lord and taylor, gap and then some!) and relaxing (very pleasant) and shopping again. Surprise surprise, my family bought luggage. honestly, you'd think we'd have enough!!
On Tuesday Emma caught up with J-Man and got to play with the kids - i'm sure she shall update her blog with pics and fun stories about the Boy and Girl (there's a fun nickname, but i ain't gonna put it on the net!), while me and my parents...continued shopping. we went to Macy's, biggest store EVER. quite exhausting really.
Tuesday night we saw a brand new show called The Drowsy Chaperone which was sooo funny - i absolutely adored it - plus it had one of my fave people in it - sutton, you are awesome.
After the show i FINALLY caught up with my friend Luc, who i was at RADA with - he's at college in the city, and we'd had a hard time acutally managing to meet up, so it was a late night cup of hot chocolate and MASSIVE piece of cheesecake for me! but it was super to catch up!
Wednesday was a quick dash around in the morning to the Empire State Buliding - we picked a great day for it, the sky was so clear But it was super super windy up there! Once we were down we dashed back uptown to pick up a few presents for people we're visiting in the UK (We stopped at Tiffany's, which was divine - they have the trademark blue box adorning the entrance, white ribbon and all!). Once we'd finished there we raced off to a matinee - "Tarzan" - mum emma and i waited outside the theatre for dad to arrive so we could pick up the tickets, and seeing as we were early we pottered around in the lobby for a while...but hang on...i heard applause? quick check of the tickets...yep...we seemed to pick the on matinee in town that started at 2pm instead of 3! so we'd missed the first half hour, but the rest of the show was pretty good! very disney - more of a spectacle "ooohhh look at that show" than an actual musical, but the majority of the music is by Phil Collins who we all love, so we enjoyed ourselves regardless!
Following that, emma and i wandered around times square for an hour or so, buying tacky souvenir things (NB to all those who are aware of emma's things with monkeys - i actually found her a mug that says "Don't Make Me Get The Flying Monkeys!" as well as a Wicked Witch Fake ID!), then we had dinner at Ellen's Stardust Diner - v. entertaining - it's a 50s style diner with Singing Waitstaff - ohhh boy.
Wednesday was our last Broadway musical - The Wedding Singer! if you enjoyed the movie you'll like this! very crazy 80s costumes, a little tribute to Flashdance, a group of celebrity impersonators including tina turner and cyndi lauper, and even Adam Sandler's song "Somebody Kill Me Please!".
On Thursday Emma and I went to central park zoo (i was disappointed to find no Egotistical Lion, Neurotic Giraffe, Confused Zebra or Hippo wit Attitude, but there were some cute snow monkeys!) and were nearly run over by all the kids on school field trips (urgghhh...)
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and now we're in London! The day we arrived we slept quite a bit, stocked up on Marks and Spencers food (soooooo goooooood), then went and saw We Will Rock You - always fun! Today we all went our seperate ways, i wandered up and down oxford st in an attempt to do some shopping, but seeing as it was a Saturday it was soo soo busy i couldn't stand it for long! We just came back from seeing Evita - finally a show that everyone else knew more than me!
Tomorrow we'll be catching up with various family friends, then on Monday we're actually seeing Wicked with Idina Menzel...oh my word...expect an adoring blog...i love her...
sorry it's so long! if you made it all the way down here you must really like me! as for the rest of you...well you're not reading down this far anyway, so i can say what i like!
pikers.
There will be pictures soon, i'm on my dad's laptop, and don't want to download all my pics onto here.
let me know whats going on at home!
xx