And I couldn’t have asked for a better birthday-month gift from Father Time!
What, you didn’t know that I celebrate and accept gifts for my birthday during the entire month of November (and the first few days of December)? Now you do. I hope everyone’s Thanksgiving was great! As for me, CivilianJenny invited me down to the Philadelphia area to spend Thanksgiving with her and her family. It was nice to have a place to go this first year really far away from friends and family, and her family was great and made me feel right at home. Thanks again, Jenny!
But today, I slept in late, played video games and watched TV like all day, and finally showered around 5pm. It was AWESOME. I haven’t been that non-productive in a long time. I’ve been replaying Half-Life 2 (finished that today), HL2 Episode One (started & finished that today), and now HL2 Episode Two, which is actually pretty challenging!
I’ve got some more pics to share with you today. On Wednesday, went and took some pictures of the Rockefeller tree from my balcony because the scaffolding came down that day, so the tree is completely visible now. All the lights are on the tree too, but they’re not actually ‘on’ just yet. That’s next week some time. Then on my way home, I gave myself the ‘treat’ of walking up and down 5th Avenue with every effin’ tourist and their mother (literally) who was in town for the weekend and the parade and everything. Oy vay. Ridiculous. But I did stop by the Saks Fifth Avenue store to see their Christmas windows, which were pretty cool. Apparently I also need to stop by Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s to see their windows ans well. I’ll make sure to provide a detailed ranking report of whose windows were the best!
21 Nov 07 – It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas in NYC….
Rockefeller Tree without the scaffolds...it's FREE
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And of course I had to go out and point at the damn thing
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The view straight up from our balcony. this is the central building of the Rockefeller Plaza Complex
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Another point, this time with the damn star (thanks, Arielle!)
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Here's Arielle, one of my coworkers I've made great friends with. She's got a Queens accent, so she gets bonus points.
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Dan and Arielle up on our balcony. You can see the TODAY show studio building behind them.
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Here's the door/window into my office
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The FTPs have truly invaded. It's so ridiculous right now.
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The Tree! Look at that star too!
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I had to get a picture at work....
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...but let's be honest, you know I'm surfing myspace all day!!!! (I'm kidding of course)
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The tree from the actual plaza
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Here are some pics I took of Saks Fifth Avenue's Christmas window displays - in the reflection you can see the tree from Saks
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A perspective view of how the windows are all set up
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I liked this one because it had the subway stop in it
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All these window displays were all motorized and moving and stuff - quite impressive!
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Up on 5th Avenue and 57th Street, they've suspended a huge star over the intersection
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And looking South on 5th Avenue - the mass of humanity. That's Trump Tower in the center background.
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