orchid show

Today Amanda and Lauren (two girls in my math and science classes) went with me to the Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden. I had seen an advertisement for the show while riding the subway back from the Elephant Parade, and I looked up the garden online, where I discovered the Orchid Show is an annual occurrence. We arrived shortly after the garden opened, toured the conservatory housing the orchids, visited the Children's Garden, and stopped in the Garden Shop. According to the website, we visited an exotic world where we delighted in the mesmerizing and seductive wonder of the nation’s premier orchid exhibition, overflowing with the dazzling shapes and breathtaking colors of the world’s most coveted plant. We were surrounded by thousands of orchids of every description—delicate, elegant, intriguing, bizarre—from all over the world. It was magnificent! After touring, we took the D train to Columbus Circle, where we had lunch at a bakery. We all ordered sandwiches served open faced on small stone cutting boards.

After lunch, I came home to do schoolwork (though I haven't actually accomplished much), and at 10:00 tonight Seana, Alison, Jen, and I are going to see Gutenberg! The Musical! In this two-man musical, a pair of aspiring playwrights perform an audition for their new project - a big musical about printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg. They hope one of the producers in the audience will give them a Broadway contract. The pair of actors will sing all the songs and play all the parts, using only baseball caps to differentiate between the show's 30 characters. Gutenberg! The Musical! was the winner of the 2006 New York Musical Theatre Festival Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre Writing. It's billed as "hilarious," and I'm looking forward to it!

UPDATE: It really was hilarious! When we left my cheeks hurt from laughing so much!