I. Love. New. York. City!
There’s no place like it. {not that I’ve really been anywhere… but still} so, oh my gosh, we had the greatest adventure last night!
We were going to go see the tree at Rockefeller Center and see the ice skating. It was crazy stupid. Way way too many people you could hardly move – and the tree was a total disappointment { don’t worry the good part’s coming } it was cool how big it was and all but it just wasn’t very pretty… we looked up at the mass of flashing colored lights and being pushed this way and that by the surrounding people and I was just so disappointed. Plus, we didn’t want to fight our way any further through the maze to see the skate rink.
Leaving with our shoulders slightly slumped, I suggested we go to Bryant Park. I love Bryant Park. Bryant Park used to be really shady but they’ve cleaned it up a lot in the last ten years or so. In the summer there were free concerts and Broadway at the park days. It’s right behind the big manhatten library with the lions out front , the one they used in ghostbusters. Anyways, they’ve totally decked it out with all of these little tent shops and there’s an ice skating rink and free skating in the NYC holiday season. Ready for the bonus points? Because I knew about all of the above and had passed through in the daylight, but I didn’t know there was a tree! And it was so beautiful! It was almost as big as Rockefeller and was real and covered in white lights and bows and giant Christmas balls. It was fabulous! { sorry there’s no pictures, my battery died }
However! My favorite part of the night was what happened in between Rockefeller Center and Bryant Park. We were outside Radio City Music Hall and walking down 6th ave. when we heard lots of honking { like lots of honking for NY, which is A LOT } and let me just say, I really enjoy the honking. I think there’s something really nice and heartfelt about New Yorkers honking to let their neighbors know that they’re there and wanting them to care. Oh! I also love New York because they have parades for everything and they shut down these major streets but don’t tell anybody about it. So anyways we’re walking down 6th and there’s honking and cops are yelling at people who are trying to cross the street and all the cars coming down the street have menorahs with two lights lit { like, on top of there cars! } and they just keep coming car after car with menorahs and huge RV’s and Vans and people are throwing candy or something out of the RV’s { I don’t really know what it was } and then I realized: oh my gosh! I’m in NYC Disneyland! I’m surrounded by Elmo and Mickey and Spiderman and Dora the exporer and Batman waving at the passing cars { picture included } and everybody’s honking! The cars in the parade are honking and the cars on the sidestreets that can’t get through are honking… it was amazing!
I was a little sad when it came to a end but then we looked up and saw the empire state building { which puts on special lights for special occasions } and it was lit up in blue and white last night for Chanukah - and then one more menorah car came puttering past… I was practically skipping to Bryant Park. It was AMAZING X2!
Oh and PS: we went to the big Macy’s on 34th street which is crazy huge but I’m reporting in that my favorite thing about that store is the really old wooden escalators they have in between floors 7 and 9 and down to the basement.
Happy day three of Chanukah! Maybe we’ll catch another parade tonight ☺
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