FAO Schwartz

FAO Schwartz
www.fao.com
So much to see here, we liked it even before we had a baby, but now its even better! Bought Marley her Whatnot and another puppet, a good long time spent here! FAO Schwartz is the only place you can get your own Whatnot ('extra' type of muppet from the on site Jim Henson Factory) which you design yourself, they are pricey at $141.45, but worth every penny!

Thursday 10 September

Thursday 10 September

The shopping begins, we strapped Marley into her pram and walked to Herald Square, shopped up and down 33rd St starting with Macys... Macys provided some beautiful children’s clothes for Marley, and we spent so long there that her lunchtime came, we bolted to McDonalds as it was a convenient spot to feed her and refuel ourselves... Back to shopping, H&M, GAP, Footlocker, keeping on all the way to Fifth Ave and up that street... The highlight was FAO Schwartz where we spent a long time checking out toys for Marley, we ordered her ‘whatnot’ then shopped around, finding a few bits ad pieces for her, picking up our ‘whatnot’ and continuing on... The other shops didn’t hold much for us, and we were holding out for Nike Town, but alas there wasn’t much there either... Walked around Trump Towers, back out onto Fifth and eventually home... To start a trend for our trip in NYC we ordered in, once Marley was in bed, it was pretty good, and clear that you really get bang for your buck when ordering in!

Avenue Q at the Comedy Theatre

We got our tickets for Christmas and have looked forward to it ever since... I didn't really know what to expect, but I didn't expect to see the puppeteers, which totally threw me... It took a little while to get used to the idea of seeing them and through out the show I phased in and out of focusing on them...

Really well written, very funny, great characters and songs... 'If you were gay' was probably my favourite, but most of them were quite amusing... Was an adult take on Sesame Street with actors and puppets interacting, and some of the puppets are obvious parodies of Sesame Street characters, awesome... If you are a fan of Jim Henson's puppets/Sesame Street its worth checking (even though it is not affiliated with them), if you are even slightly curious about what its like you should check it, if seeing puppets shag is going to ruin all of your childhood visions of puppets then do not check it!