The Long Weekend

Not the longest weekend mind you but a wonderful long weekend. It was wonderful to have 4 days away from the office and to chill out without having to travel any place further than 75th street nor to cook. Macy's blows up all their parade balloons on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving right outside the Museum and right outside my window. So cold weather with Irish mist not withstanding the entire neighborhood turns out to watch this annual event. I love it. I don't love coming to the Parade because it's crowded, cold, anticlimatic and I always worry about how I'm going to get home. Don't ask...

Thanksgiving Day was sunny and warm and the friends that we joined for Thanksgiving Dinner have an apartment with several fabulous terraces and so we were able to wander about outside enjoying the skyline and the sunshine. We so enjoyed being guests at their dinner: we came on time, were polite to everyone and came home at a reasonable hour with doggie bags. How thoughtful is that. Actually while I won't ever cook a turkey for Thanksgiving because I think it's too labor intensive for what it is, we did cook the turkey lurking in our icebox the next day and enjoyed that. Now for the sandwiches. The rest of the weekend was very laidback with trips to the Park with Miss Murray, ice skating and some time for all of us to chill out.

We also went to Chinatown with some friends who were in China with me in 1999 and we hadn't seen since the weekend before 9/11. We went to Chinatown for dinner with them and it's one of my great regrets that Kate doens't like anything about Chinatown; it's smelly, it's crowded, it's boring....not.

Then Kate had a playdate with her good friend Lile which made it possible for Lile's mother and me to have a a girls day, too. We went shopping at Lord & Taylor and had dinner at home with the girls safely tucked away in another room.

Heaven