After an early lunch with my parents, where we got to catch up on all the family news, Em and I hopped on the bus and arrived in NYC just in time to drop our bags and walk to RedFarm for a dumpling dinner that was only a little short of perfection (seriously - dreampt of them that night!).
Then we headed back to our super swanky hotel because we had some serious pampering to do before going to bed. We swam in the "grotto", where Sven made sure we had warmed towels, and basked in the steam room so long they finally had to kick us out. And then up to the room where we cleaned out the complimentary candy, snacks and drinks and gossiped late into the night.
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Saturday, after luxuriating for awhile in our robes and slippers, we headed to SoHo for some shopping. The beautiful things in some of those boutiques tempted my usually frugal soul. We continued uptown to the MOMA, to see an exhibit of Matisse "cut-outs". Looking at the shapes that Matisse cut out and arranged and re-arranged and re-arranged again, I was struck by how beautiful and deceptively simple the finished products were.
it's true, men are the worst
After a quick look at the Christmas decorations along 5th Avenue, we headed to ride stand-by on the next bus back to DC (our original bus had left a few hours earlier). We arrived at the stop only to find mass confusion. I'm not exactly proud of this but our choice was to either join the crowd of 200 people milling around aimlessly wondering what was going on OR cut in front of that entire crowd and sweet talk our way on the next bus. And that's how we found ourselves in the last two seats out of town.
Can't wait for our next trip Em!!
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