----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 2:49 PM Subject: OT: Recovering from Thanksgiving and Black Friday
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
We have a Russian Team Room in Chicago as well--and I dined there with a bunch of PDMLers when everyone was in Chicago last May.
(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.
Yesterday, I stopped into an Apple store to look around. It wasn't as crowded as I thought it would be--even the staff looked concerned. I checked out the iPhone4 and tried to see if anyone would confirm the rumor that the iPhone is coming to Verizon in February; no one would. I'm going to wait; if it doesn't come, then I'll go with the Droid.
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.
Wow, that's a great day, Dan. I love these kinds of days. I'd like to get back to New York with my husband. I've only been once--when I was 14. I took a walk in Central Park, bummed a cigarette from some guy walking by, and bought a $7 bracelet from a Hari Krishna selling his wares. Ah, I felt so worldly. Those were the days.
Where are the pics? No street scenes? :-) Cheers, Christine -- 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.
