(written in the voice of Rosemary
Lincoln, who I had the pleasure of showing NYC and its holiday glories!)
November 28
We met
at the airport (JFK) and taxied to 235 E. 22rd Street together, the
condo apartment of Barbara’s friend Cathy.
We threw our bags into the apartment, combed our hair (Rosemary fussed
the most…) and off we went to one of the iconic (and best) restaurants in New
York City.
Waiting
for our table at Gramercy Tavern NYC; holiday weekend treat!
November 29
We got
going late in the morning, and admired the tree and the hustle and bustle of the crowds in Rockefeller Center, and then had a great lunch at a restaurant right across the street with
Barbara’s friends from UBS. The menu was
mind-boggling, but we passed on the caviar
😊.
We went
to see the Christmas show with the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.
Next we
enjoyed the Midtown area, and walked and walked, looking at the wonderful
window displays on Fifth Avenue.
The
sidewalks were crowded, and people kept bumping into us. We ducked into a pharmacy and got blinking
bulb necklaces; it made us visible (very
much so!) as we walked, and were fun accessories.
Sundown
comes early in New York City in December, and as luck would have it, there we
were on Fifth Avenue just as the fantastic light and sound display started on
the front of Saks Fifth Avenue.
Absolutely free, and absolutely beautiful.
We made our way to St
Regis hotel, a grand hotel in the Midtown area of the city.
The
King Cole bar is a famous bar at the St. Regis hotel, supposedly where Bloody Marys were invented,
so of course we had to have one! The wait for a table for two was going to be
very long, so we joined with a Mom and her grown son to make it four, and had a
wonderful time chatting with them. The
son is actually a lighting expert for bridges, and one of his jobs is to climb
on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and replace the bulbs that burn out of that
lighting display.
November 30
What a
busy day! Yesterday was a dilly, but
Barb and I keep packing in the experiences!
Frist,
a stop at the Empire State Building… but taking the elevator all the way up was
too much. Better to enjoy the scale
model in the lobby.
That
gave us time to go to Macy’s Herald Square NYC, the largest store in the world!
Next
stop, the Whitney Museum and its much-lauded Andy Warhol exhibit. We also had lunch at their museum restaurant,
Untitled, an excellent restaurant managed by the same group that manages the
Gramercy Tavern!
We had
reservations at Rolf’s, 281 3rd
Ave, known for its incredible Christmas decorations! Hearty German food, and loads of fun!
December 1
What a great visit to
the Museum of Modern Art!
I am so
pleased to see the original of Van Gogh's Starry Night, since I’d just reviewed my
grandson’s homework paper on this art piece.
And
then there is the magnificent gallery of Monet’s Water Lillies!
How
wonderful that MOMA has a place where children can relax with a great work of
art and either copy it, or do their own thing.
There
is also a great museum restaurant, The Modern, where we had a nice pre-show
meal!
Next
Museum: On our way to the Metropolitan
Museum of art.
Barb
likes all of these ethnographic exhibits… I go for the gold!
Getting
ready for the performance of Kinky Boots on Broadway! What a fun show!
December 2
We sure packed a lot into these days!
On our last half-day, a hearty breakfast at Tivoli Café, corner of 22nd and 3rd
Avenue, before heading to the airport.
The
only problem was … terrible weather at JFK.
Barb’s flight did go, but late, but it went because she was on a big
plane and a long-haul cross-country flight.
My flight was cancelled until the next day, and I found myself in the
claws of a gypsy cab driver who charged me an arm and a leg for the 3 mile trip
to the airport hotel. I’ll only take
registered yellow cabs from now on! But
the hotel was nice, I had a decent meal and a drink (!!) and I made it home the
next day.
Great fun trip!
