A day trip to NYC! Wow. We left Union Station at 5:30 am - that required getting up at 4:30. The train was late getting in but it was still early when we got there, 9:00 or so. NY had gotten at least 20 inches of snow just days before so when we emerged from Penn Station, we saw the city digging out. We walked everywhere and got dunked in freezing pools of melt at several curbs. We walked to Macy's to see the Christmas windows (the point of this trip was Christmas decorations) and then down 5th avenue. We had tickets for the 11am Rockettes show in Radio City Music Hall. I was much more impressed than I expected to be. What an extravaganza. They did 10 or so numbers and the staging and costumes were very impressive. The stage is huge, so big that camels and donkeys were included in the Nativity Set.
After the show, we visited Rockefeller Square to see the big tree, the skating rink, the angels and take it all in. The crowds were not as bad as I had heard about. Next was St. Patrick's, close by. Then off walking we went - the sun came out and it got up to maybe the high 30s. Lunch in a Chinese restaurant. We waked through Central Park for awhile and then headed back, to see Rockefeller Square at dark.
The city looks much more festive at night but the cars and people came out in droves. Solid gridlock in the streets - they aren't that wide to begin with and with all the space taken by piles of snow, it was really a nightmare. We were on the train back home by 7pm and got home at about 10:30.
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