Hey everyone!
Like I mentioned on Friday, this past weekend we headed into the city to see Jerry Seinfeld! Since we don’t get into the city too often we journeyed in a bit early to do a little shopping and looking around. We also wanted to beat the parking craziness that we knew would happen near showtime and made sure we got parked near the metro centre early.
We were a tad too early. We were there around 3:45pm. The show didn’t start until 7:30pm. So we hiked it down the hill to the water front.
Luckily it was a beautiful day! {warning: sub-par iPod photos ahead!}
Who knew they closed ships up like this during the winter? Well, likely most people who live around here. I guess I never really thought about it before but they would obviously have to protect all the decking and stuff from the winter elements.
Once we finished touring the waterfront (which was full of bikers and other wanderers) I needed a break. Turns out while my boots were super cute
wearing them with thin cotton socks and then tramping all over downtown Halifax wasn’t a great combo. Hello blisters. Thankfully I carry band-aids with me so I threw some on the blisters to protect them but it didn’t really help the pain any. Luckily for me it was now 5:00pm and not only were most of the stores now closed we still had 2 1/2 hours to go before the show!
The worst part about my blisters was knowing that earlier in the day I bought 2 6-packs of athletic socks at Lady Foot Locker. They were in our car. Had I put a pair of them on before heading down to the waterfront I probably wouldn’t have had any problems at all. Oh irony, you are a funny beast.
So we hiked back up the hill which proved to be quite a task. By now I was shoving my feet as far forward in my boots as possible to give my heels a rest (where the blisters were) which made my start to get some on my toes too! When a girl is in this much pain there is clearly only one thing to be done
Just look how the idea of a cupcake lifted my spirits! I was sure they’d be closed but thankfully they stay open on Saturday’s until 6pm – YAHOO!
My treat:
a red velvet cupcake, while J thought it only fitting her get a Susie’s Classic
Yum-o-rama. We each had 2/3 of our own cupcake and then switched. My red velvet was yummy, but that Susie’s Classic was off the hook delish. I’m for sure going to have to get one of those next time I go! There is something to be said for a cupcake with so much icing that you have to take a few bites of all icing in order to eat the cupcake.
After our cupcakes we went to sport check where I saw some awesome sneakers. I want these so badly – they look like spiderman shoes!
After making a quick (who am I kidding, by now I was walking more like Quasimodo than a fitness instructor) stop at Shoppers Drug Mart for some proper blister bandages we walked back to the Metro Centre and waited to get in.
Once we got in we had to make our way to our seats (meaning I had to hobble down the stadium steps to get to the floor section where we were seated)
I was so dang happy to sit down I can’t even tell you. Our seats were pretty decent (though J knew someone in the front row – I would have killed even with blistered feet to have those seats!)
Our view:
I find it interesting that my phone actually takes a better photo than my iPod. Next time I’ll stick with just the phone camera!
Jerry was straight up awesome. Worth every penny. I am the dork who cried a little when he came out, and I’m not even ashamed of it. We had a wonderful time (despite the dude behind us with the terrible laugh). I tried to take a couple of shots during the show but we were too far back and the lighting too low to get anything viewable. I can’t say enough about how much I loved the show. If you are a Seinfeld fan and he comes to a town near you – go. The tickets might be expensive but you won’t be disappointed!