After a long, boring flight we are back home. I didn’t end up getting the upgrade because they said they’d overbooked business class, but as it turned out, some people didn’t show up so I could have upgraded. Oh well. It was nice to finally arrive home, even though we had only been gone for 2 weeks. The plane flew directly over our house on the way to the airport, and it was nice to look down and see it.
We had a great time, and bought a lot more stuff than we did on our holiday last year. We didn’t do as much touristy stuff either, but did go to the Top of Rockefeller Center, and went ice skating on the rink there, which is something I really wanted to do.
The other things we’d wanted to do were to see the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center. Well, on the day of the parade it was pouring with rain, and was damn cold. We found a spot at about 7:45, with the parade due to start at 9. At the spot we were at, though, the parade took half an hour to get to us, so by the time we actually saw anything, we were wet (although we did have umbrellas), frozen to the bone and losing the feeling in our extremities. We stayed for an hour, then shoved our way through the crowd which was probably 5 or 6 people deep, and found a coffee shop. Mmmm coffee. Still, we got some photos and videos, and we watched the rest from our warm, dry hotel room. Of course, the next day was absolutely perfect weather.
For the tree lighting ceremony, we went there after M got back from his conference, and there were already thousands of people there, and the closest we could get to the tree was a big tv screen positioned around the corner. So we gave up on that and had dinner at a very nice (and expensive) steakhouse. We went back to the hotel room and watched the ceremony from there.
So the two things we’d really wanted to do didn’t go as well as we’d hoped, but we still had a great time. When M was at the conference I discovered a coffee shop near Bryant Park so I got myself a coffee and went over to the park and watched the people ice skating, and wandered around the outdoor shops in the park. It was very relaxing, and I did it again on the second day he was at the conference as well. The rest of the time on my own was spent walking to and around various shops.
So now we’re home, and the cats were pleased to see us long enough to get us to let them outside. We went to bed a little before 9:00, and were woken up by Jack at around 6 this morning. Even though I’m still tired, I couldn’t sleep any more, and since M was awake as well, we got up. At least we’ll be tired tonight and hopefully get a good night’s sleep before going back to work tomorrow.
There’ll probably be more about the holiday later, but for now I’m off to get some coffee and toast!
