Friday in New York

Whoops! With all of the Christmas festivities, I forgot to post this earlier...

Charles and I were sad that it was our last day in the Big Apple, but we decided to make the best of it. We began the day at Balthazar Bakery...Everything looked and smelled delicious! It was hard to decide what to order...Charles ordered and I finally settled on a chocolate croissant and hot chocolate, and we sat outside and enjoyed our breakfast...We then walked to the Guggenheim...and after a little wait in line both outside and inside, we managed to buy our tickets and enjoyed the architecture from the rotunda...We then viewed the Kandinsky Exhibit as well as the other pieces of modern art and installations. Some of them were quite interesting! Several pieces really made us wonder if we were in fact looking at art!



We then strolled down Park Avenue...
and passed Dylan's Candy Shop...On our way to Serendipity...

The wait, right at opening, was so long, so we put our name on the list and headed around the corner to the Tramway Diner...
were we enjoyed lunch...
While watching the Roosevelt Island Tram...We wanted to take a ride, but did not think that we had enough time - oh well, guess we have to have a return trip!!We then walked back to Serendipity...

and were seated right away. We enjoyed all of the Christmas decorations...

and really enjoyed our frozzzen hot chocolate! (Before we left Mississippi, we decided this would be our New York tradition - enjoy a frozzzen hot chocolate at Serendipity each time we visit the Big Apple! We actually enjoyed several repeats from our past visit, so we'll see just what becomes our actual tradition!)
We then walked back to the hotel. Charles thought his kids at school would enjoy a picture of LeBron...
We also passed Bloomingdale's...
and briefly checked out their windows. We enjoyed beautifully decorated buildings...
and decorations of all kinds, including this suspended snowflake...
We passed the Russian Tea Room and Carnegie Hall for the last time during our trip...
and as we were almost back to our hotel, we spotted a Christmas tree stand - right in the middle of the city street which I thought was pretty neat!

I then spotted the red church - during our whole trip, I knew that we were almost at the hotel when I spotted this beautiful building!We glanced down to the other end of the street... and then picked up our luggage, took a car back to Newark and passed through airport security with relative ease! After a little wait, we boarded the plane and were Mississippi bound!

We had a fabulous trip!!