Keeping Busy at Christmas

Wife and I have kept surprisingly busy in the last few days. There is so much we have to blog about, but we haven’t found the time. Here is a list of our recent experiences, that we which will all, hopefully, receive their own post in the near future:

• Spent an evening walking around Times Square , taking in all of the holiday scenery with a cup of hot coffee.
• Enjoyed Macy’s beautiful window displays and all nine stories of Macy’s Christmas commercialism (I never realized Macy's was so enormous).
  
• Gawked at the Christmas window displays at Bloomingdale’s.
• Walked around Central Park, enjoying the holiday season and watching ice skaters.
• Explored world-famous Chelsea Market.
• Went to Brooklyn for the live finale of Clash of the Choirs (long story here, which will take a full post).
• Attended our first Broadway production, “The Farnsworth Invention” (post already written on this).
• Ate White Castle (neither of us had ever done that).
• Trekked to Brooklyn to shop at Costco (I need to write about the two-story Costco).
• Spent the evening at Rockefeller Plaza, where we saw the famous tree, watched ice skaters, coin pond, and visited the quaint little shops along with millions of others.
• Played with hundreds of unique and useless toys at the huge Sharper Image.
• Ate a huge lunch deep in China town (we ventured about three blocks past where all the other English-speakers dare to venture; I have no idea what we actually ate, but the main dish appeared to some sort of poultry - the huge meal totaled just $2.50).
• Worshiped at a Christmas Eve service at local Baptist church, where Laura did her best to save a soloist who forgot the lines to the 27^th verse of O Holy Night (the soloist was absolutely wonderful, but forgot the lines of a verse I had never heard before - I have no idea how wife knew it).
• Walked to Washington Square Park where we enjoyed Christmas evening under the huge Christmas tree beneath the famous arch.
• Learned that Postmaster’s in NYC can suddenly announce that the post office is closing on Christmas Eve so that the employees can spend time with their families.
• Discovered that there is not a single pizzeria open on Christmas Eve in Greenwich Village (the death of our tradition).
• Experienced a special Christmas worship service in the New Yorker Hotel, put on by the church we have been attending.
• Did our best “Friends” imitation, spending Christmas morning in a coffee shop chatting and watching New Yorkers bustle around.

Wife is still under the weather. If anyone has recommendations for a cold that just will not go away, feel free to pass along any advice.