Hello Again! In case you aren't aware, we still haven't left for India. On Saturday we learned that 6-inches of snow "invaded" Heathrow airport, the airport we were flying into. Heathrow is one of the most important airports because it connects the U.S. to Europe and Asia and vise versa. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled including ours. We are lucky that we were at home when this happened and not in an airport. You may think, "how can a mere 6-inches shut down an entire airport?" Well, for reasons that I can't understand, England gets about as much snow yearly, as we do droughts. Although they also get 4 times as much rain and clouds than we do. How this works, I have no idea. So because they don't know how to deal with half a foot of snow, we had to stay up, searching for a different airline to take us there. But no fear, we are leaving tomorrow night for Moscow, then an hour and a half layover, and off to Delhi, paying a couple more hundred dollars than before.
So with a couple extra days to spare, we decided to take advantage of these few days in New York and took on a classic New York Christmas experience yesterday. Starting at Rockefeller Center, we gawked at the tree with the rest of the tourists and my Dad, who somehow had never seen it before.
Then we made our way to Saks Fifth Ave (request of yours truly) to stare at the beautiful windows. Which the grown ups intensely tried to make sense of, and embarrassingly shouted out what they thought the display was about to the rest of the shoppers. We made a small detour inside Saks to marvel at the Louis Vuitton bags and the Chanel shoes (well, I did). And then strolled along Fifth Ave passing Bendels and Prada and all of the places that my Mom kept talking about with parental disgust. Until we arrived at Tiffany's, where she morphed into her inner Hepburn and looked at the jewels like she came there all the time.
Of course we couldn't leave without taking a pit stop at the Apple Store, in which Aunt Juliette touched an iPad for the first time. Ironically, we finished the night departing to the Lower East Side to dine at Angelica's Kitchen with Lauren.
Honestly, I was glad that we could spend one day doing what New Yorkers are supposed to do during the Holidays before we returned to our exotic ways, even though the only thing that I got from Tiffany's is a lollipop.
I hope you are all enjoying your holiday season so far, and aren't lusting after things that you aren't allowed to have. Happy Holidays and Bon Voyage!
Thai :)
