Snakes at a Zoo

Well, I have to say that an afternoon on my back on Cheyenne's mattress could not even come close to being as great of a day as yesterday turned out to be. Leaving my disappointment behind at Starbucks, I hopped on a train and went up to the Bronx Zoo, and that was quite a day. That place is HUGE and there was so much to see, I left a lot undone and have to go back sometime to see everything else. I was very impressed with their reptile house, while it was small, it was the great old school dark concrete building with small habitats for each snake behind a thick glass window. While Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago and Atlanta's Zoo have larger snake collections, the Bronx had the best specimens in the categories they did have. I'll post some pictures when I get home, I can't do it throigh email. After an afternoon tromping around the zoo, I hopped back on the train to the hotel, filled with a new feeling of having street cred now that I've set foot in the Bronx. I'm keeping it real, just like JLo.

After a quick shower, my companion and I had a great diner at La Rivista and then it was time. I have to say that the tone of this production was different than the Encores production, focusing more on the humor in the first act, it wasn't so dark from the get go, but it was just as fabulous. The focus was more on Rose and Louise's change over the years. Last sumer, Patti's Rose was driven and demanding from the start. Here, we saw more of her humanity at the start and she gets more driven as it goes on. It was once again a fabulous performance and I can't wait to get the cast recording in August. Now, it's about 11 on Saturday, and we're about to head out for lunch and some shopping, and then it's showtime.