2025 New York
"Waiting for Godot"
(9/16/2025 - 9/19/2025)
2025 New York
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On Tuesday, September 16, 2025, Katherine and Brian travelled to New York to watch the Broadway play "Waiting for Godot". Click on any photo for a much larger highest resolution original I have.
This first screenshot is just random stuff to remember about the play for my notes.
Below is a picture of our Smartcar parked at Austin Airport AUS. I take this picture each trip to remember where I parked, LOL.
Landing in New York (JFK Airport).
A screenshot of Flightradar24 showing how many airplanes are stacked up to take off at JFK airport.
Welcome to New York City!
Katherine and I stayed at "The Pearl Hotel". Directly across the street from the hotel is the Eugene O'Neill theater, showing "The Book of Mormon". If you go to this page: https://www.ski-epic.com/2011_manhattan_new_york_trip/index.html there is a photo I took in 2011 showing "The Book of Mormon" has been playing here since 2011!! Geez. I still have never seen it, maybe in another 15 years I might come back and see the show.
Below is a random picture I took quickly as Katherine and I walked across the street in Manhattan.
For dinner, we had Omakase at the restaurant Korami in Manhattan. It was good. Katherine says 15 pieces of sushi was perfect.
We had sake (picture below).
The first time I ever saw one of these "car lifts" was in Manhattan. Here is a car lift in Manhattan.
Our hotel room has a balcony. Below is a panorama of the view (scroll to the right to see all of it).
A picture I took by leaning over the side of the balcony.
Looking the other direction.
Thursday night we had an early dinner at "The View" which is a rotating restaurant at the top of the New York Marriott Marquis. The restaurant rotates 360 degrees about once an hour.
Katherine slightly smiling at the dessert she ordered.
Below is a photo of McDonalds. It's a really big video sign for a McDonalds.
A random picture around the area of Times Square in Manhattan. I like how there are so many people out and about. It feels "vibrant" to me.
Another photo of all the people wandering about.
We attended the play "Waiting for Godot", performed by Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter (who performed in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure).
The panorama below is badly lit but shows what the inside of the "Hudson Theatre" looks like. The Hudson Theatre is one of the oldest Broadway venues and was built in 1902.
Below is a better lit picture showing what people are wearing. Not too formal. Almost zero ties on men, a few sport jackets, some t-shirts even.
At the end of the play seems to be the socially acceptable moment to take a photo. Here is the whole cast of the show, on the stage taking a bow for the audience. The stage (for this show) is set up as a cylinder. Characters enter and leave through the rear end of the cylinder. It was kind of interesting. Sometimes the actors used the cylinder as a comedy prop, where they would fall against the wall then slide down to the center pretending to be asleep.
A very short movie showing Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter taking a bow. Highest quality original here.
The next morning we flew home to Austin, Texas. But we stopped by the Jaeger LeCoultre store in Manhattan to buy a watch band.
In the taxi on the way to the JFK airport, bye bye New York!
Inside the JFK airport, there are these odd pontoons and netting. They are just artsy lighting fixtures. The flanges on the pontoon keep the netting away from the lights, and the netting is a little for security and mostly to keep birds from roosting and nesting in the terminals.
The picture below is documenting the "raised moving walkways" in JFK airport. Inside the airport there are traditional moving walkways at floor height. But there are ALSO a few of these moving walkways you see below. My assumption is this allows the walkway to be installed without drilling into the floor. There is a slight ramp up over about 12 to 18 inches.
Our flight landing in Austin.
And we are home!
That's it! That's all the pictures. All done!