NYC in bloom and Easter Weekend

Columbus Circle is always a favorite destination point for me.  Spring is in full bloom here now.

 

The following are pictures of the open courtyard in our apartment building. The building management does a great job of seasonal planting. 

Trees and daffodils in the front of our apartment building, the Ivy Tower, along West 43rd Street

We saw the Broadway play Good People with Frances McDormand and Tate Donovan. It was very thought provoking and the acting was uniformly well done.  There are so many levels to this play as to how to define "Good People," as each of the characters has their strengths and faults and nothing is easy in succeeding or not succeeding. We both enjoyed it very much. We've mostly seen dramatic plays of recent but will be taking my mom to see Billy Elliott next Sunday so that will definitely be a change of pace.  Bob wanted to see HIGH so I went again with him -- managed to get comp tickets again.  We both liked it quite a bit.  It's already closing after only 8 performances (and 28 preview performances). It got panned by critics. I couldn't believe what a thrashing they gave it. It seems like whoever was reviewing it could not grasp the spiritual crisis portrayed in the play. Certainly those of us in the audience who had an opportunity to see the performance thought differently.

Morgan Stanley gave their employees Friday off (Good Friday/Passover) so Bob had a three day weekend. We went to see a couple of movies this weekend, mainly because I had some discount tickets that were going to expire soon so we had to use them. We went to see Limitless with Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, and Robert DeNiro.  We liked that movie quite a bit, mostly for the concept of the NZT and how the accelerated brain power was depicted on screen. Very ingenious and creative.  We now have a good inside joke about having NZT moments. We also saw Water for Elephants. I had to get the discount tickets through Fandango so had limitations on choices for movies to see. I doubt that we would have seen it if not for the constraints. It was an okay movie, Bob liked it more than I did.  Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson have absolutely ZERO chemistry which I think takes away so much from the story.  Otherwise it was a pretty relaxed three day weekend.

We missed the Easter Parade along 5th Avenue today, hopefully we will get ourselves there next year. My mom gets here this week, hopefully it will go well........the weather is supposed to be reasonable so that will help.