Thanksgiving New York Style

It was nice for a change to have turkey, stuffing, cranberries and all the other Thanksgiving Day acutramonts readily available (and so well preparing by our dear friends Carol and Jim). Pranvera and I were invited to the Big Apple for the long holiday weekend to see experience NY in its full holiday glory. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, window shopping on 5th Avenue, family sit-down Thanksgiving feast, decking the halls by putting up a holiday tree, a show (Avenue Q) on Broadway, several late night meals and of course ice skating in Central Park.

We bused in up over the very busy weekend with only a slightly delayed travel time of 5 hours up but a record pace of 7 on the Sunday back. None the less it was fantastic to hang out with our very close friends and appreciate their fine apartment on the upper East side, great cooking, pleanty of wine and wonderful conversations. It is times like these that I so appreciate being stateside again to appreciate some Americana and dear friends.

As anyone who has been there will tell you, NY is an exercise city. Anytime we left the apt. we were able to cut across Central Park to get to the central and lower Manhattan. It seemed like we averaged 80-100 blocks of walking a day. Not to mention being able to stop in fantanstic little deli's or bars to pick up some food. Or had we been brave enough to fight the crowds, to actually do some shopping. The eneregy of the city never stops and with perfect crisp weather and no indication what so ever that the US is in any type of recession, the holiday spirit was high.