Just pics.

Bucks for dinner

Lovely affair..Hamish shul and service great family affair.

Reception at Viking hotel. Very well organized by Sara and Marcia.

Amy Scott Jason Craig Melanie Michelle Bruce George Sharon

The plan today was to meet up with Billy and Naomi at Bluff Point in Groton, a park they have walked in a number of times in earlier days.

Note: photos are out of chronological order.

Another warm day

Breakfast at Baltazar

Last night’s ballet was a bigger success for me as I happen to like some of the Russian classical, less so for Sharon . She preferred Thursday night.

Last night ballet also had two events going on so fancy dress black tie fancy dresses lots of Wealth.

Café Luxembourg had good food, but kitchen fell too far behind and we had to leave before we could really finish dinner properly.

Dinner: red farm, uptown on Broadway this time. First time here usually we go to the one on Hudson.

Tonight: Coppelia

Outstanding. Both dance and orchestra.

Second day of New York blog. Yesterday’s plan of updating it throughout the day even as late as almost midnight worked out well so I will probably continue the method.

Another early morning, breakfast at the News Cafe on university place.  Fortunately Sarah could join us.

Walking through Union Square lots and lots of booths with K Harris paraphernalia

Wandering through soho. Stopped at the CVS to pick up some Band-Aids for blister and they were far far tonight;again is New York coming to?

The CVS is in a decrepit building that used to be the village gate. It looks like it should be torn down apparently it’s protected historically which is why it has a weird architecture, terrible façade and no redeeming features at all.

Wandering through Soho fighting our way through large clouds and unfortunately mostly chain stores. Virtually all stores in Soho seem to be chained now except on one street or so.

Long history of Famous shills doing this, many quite quite good

Dinner, Cafe Luxembourg

On our way, walking up to the dinner we stopped at Eataly.

Dinner badly rushed because the kitchen was late and we had to leave by 7 o’clock to make the ballet. Left Neil still eating only partially through his steak.

Ratmansky tonight

Spoke to one who brought 60 of his friends to this ball as a birthday party then off to the birthday, Valentine ball dinner 

Easy ride on Amtrak and then a nice walk along fifth Avenue to Reach Neil‘s place. Neil nicely offered us his condominium apartment to stay for four nights two bedrooms two baths all amenities and the most amazing wonderful powerful powerful wonderful amazing shower. I almost don’t want to leave.

Fantastic hospitality. We have the master bath master bedroom and full run of all the drawers and cabinets.

Off to the Met

First stop a wonderful exhibition of graphic art set by the Mexican artists right after the revolution of 1910 a revolution that continued probably to this day many political cartoons wood cuts those etc. etc.

Possibly an odd fungal growth from an alien civilization that landed on the beeswax cheese and decided to colonize it. At least that’s my theory.

Park entrance. After the met, we decided to walk to Lincoln Center but have dinner first of course. Wonderful walk to the park so navigation done by Sharon took a fair amount of effort as the roads are windy and we’re going diagonally across. QB got us there, but she says not without difficulty

We booked dinner at the Atlantic Grill based primarily on its location. Overall, quite pleased.

Four ballets by Peck and a bit of my vest

Started with a film about the choreographer Peck and his many years with the NY ballet company and his various compositions, the film was outstanding.

Pieces as a ballet was quite angular extremely energetic, and nice to watch. I truly enjoyed it. The next one called solo was rather ordinary to my taste and without really exciting music.

Have to seeing three of the four ballets. It’s quite obvious that his style is unique. And not surprisingly the same basic forms keep reappearing.

Final walk back, partially. Ended the day with plus 13 miles.