Sounds like a fine day. Did YOU buy anything? -----Original Message----- From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:49:49 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: OT: Recovering from Thanksgiving and Black Friday
I hope everyone here in the US had a great Thanksgiving, and is on the road to recovery. After a nice traditional meal at home (turkey and much, much more), with family and friends, we had a full Black Friday (The traditional start of Christmas shopping in the US). My idea of shopping is going on line, or doing it the old-fashioned way -- by catalogs. Nevertheless, yesterday I found myself in the belly of the beast. In the morning, my wife and her friend hit Flemington (a country town nearby with lots of factory outlets) for some quick bargains, while I did some yard work. Then, we headed into the City. On Black Friday. Insane. We took the train into The City, then walked from Penn Station the 25 blocks or so to The Park. Broadway was almost impassable at points, with shoppers, tourists and theater-goers. We had an early -- and hearty -- dinner at the Russian Tea Room (slightly to the left of Carnegie Hall, and just south of the park). Then, since we had some time, we headed over to Fifth Avenue, which was even more festive, and every bit as crowded, as Broadway. We stopped to enter the confusion and chaos of the busiest store in the City: the flagship Apple Store at Fifth Avenue and 58th. (http://images.apple.com/retail/fifthavenue/gallery/images/photo1.jpg). If there is a recession, you couldn't tell from this place; there was a line of people entering, and we could hardly move around on the main retail floor, below street level. We then walked south on Fifth Avenue, past all the expensive fashion and jewelry stores, to St Pat's and Rockefeller Center, which was also mobbed. The tree was up but undecorated, the skaters were waltzing on the ice below the square, and shoppers and tourists bumped into one another every few inches. Even before the lighting of the big tree, the decorations were sumptuous. Finally, we fought our way back to 45th and Broadway, to the Golden Theater, and the ultimate goal of the evening: Driving Miss Daisy, with Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones. It is a very good play, but that is quite besides the point. Watching two of the greatest actors of our time playing against each other was an overwhelming experience, and everything we had hoped for. Finally, the hour and a quarter train ride home, to warm up and loosen up in the hot tub before collapsing in exhaustion. Quite a day for three old fogies from Jersey and Baltimore. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
