A 3/2 week-late blog post

Although two weekends ago we had a 4-day weekend for us, I didn’t do much. I just stayed home for the first part of it. However, my mom said that we were going to New York to do something. She wouldn’t tell us what it was, but I was pretty excited.

 

When Saturday finally came, we went to the train station in town. We parked in the Walgreen’s parking lot and got a ticket. We wanted to get the 10:20 AM train, but we ended up going back home to get the 11:15 AM train because we were worried they might tow our car because no parking lot allows cars for more than four hours at a time. We came back and got on the 11:15 train and started our journey into the city.

 

It took about 45 minutes for us to get to the station. From there, we bought one 6-way and one 3-way Metro ticket for the three of us. We took the subway into the city. There was some delay and confusion. We thought the right train was coming, but it didn’t and we were running late. Finally the Q train arrived and we got on it. We now have 6-ways left. We emerged from the station and, with about one minute left, we got to the place. As we were half running half walking down the sidewalk, I saw a picture of the Blue Man Group coming up. I asked my mom about it, and sure enough I was right.

 

We got there and presented out tickets. From the main room we went through a small, dim hallway (I guess they wanted it to be that way) into a small, dark theater. We finally found our seats at the end of the row and sat down. We were handed a long strand of think toilet paper, I guess to be used as a headband. I didn’t wear it. We waited for about ten minutes before the red crawling text on the small screen finally said something different. It told us to point out specific people in the audience and say hi, happy birthday, or welcome them. Apparently, someone in the room won gold at the Olympics one year. It was also someone else’s birthday. The sign specifically told us to “tell” (Not sing) them Happy Birthday. The show finally started showing the silhouettes of the Blue Men playing the drums making a catchy beat in the process. After about two minutes of this, the stage lighted up and they were on it. They did some skits and made music at the same time. No matter what they did, however, it was either really cool or really funny. They interacted with the audience a lot. They picked people from the audience and brought them on stage to do whatever they needed them to do or just to play along with what they were doing. They even interrupted the show to spotlight and ridicule a couple that came in late. The show’s skits revolved around making art in some form or another, excluding the one where they picked someone from the audience, which was just for humor.

 

Overall I had a lot of fun there. I didn’t know what to expect about the BMG, but I’m glad we went.