December 18
Remi came home to complete the pack three months ago today.
I've blogged so little the past two months, I wanted to catch up with a few more favorite shots of that sweet gray face and the trio.
Scenes from New York City at Christmas time 2022
Friday, Dec. 9 through Monday Dec. 12
Friday
LaGuardia to Hotel St. James 109 W. 45th, the second oldest continuously operated hotel under the same name since June 14th, 1901. The Iroquois beat it by 9 months but it's older than the famous Algonquin.
M&M Store
Christmas Cottage 7th & 54th (oldest Christmas store in Manhattan)
Scenes along 6th Ave. of the Americas
Washington Square
Radio City Rockettes show at 10:00 that night.
We caught the turning off of the Rockefeller tree about a minute after we arrived post-show.
Red Flame Diner
Joe's call from NY Pizza Suprema (see story below)
Times Square to Grand Central Holiday Market
Lunch at Suprema
Bryant Park & NYPL
Stroll from the Plaza down to Rockefeller and Sak's Fifth Show
Sunday
Early morning Rockefeller & Radio City decorations again -- compare those crowds!
Dinner after the play at the pub (Killian, from Ireland, was our server and a sweetheart)
Museum of Broadway (just opened on the same block as our hotel and the pub)
Monday
Pre dawn walk to Central Park before heading for the airport
We managed to do about half of our Christmas sites but that just means we'll have to go back next year and try again!
Saturday was SantaCon (if you watch the video you'll see a lot of Santa suits in the subway and along the strees) also the great New York Suprema Pizza lunch that requires a bit of back story.
Last year in November we went to see Billy Joel in his return to Madison Square Garden after the long COVID pause and had dinner before the concert across the street at NY Suprema Pizza. On the menu that night was a white sauced pickle pizza that Stephanie (our lady in HufflePuff yellow) went gaga over. She must have mentioned it a dozen times as we were planning this trip.
So in the week leading up to our departure I suggested she might want to call the place and make sure that pie was still on the menu,
Sadly, she discovered it was not, but the person on the phone suggested she email the owner in case it was do-able, which she did.
Saturday morning, just as we had popped back into our hotel after breakfast and before setting off for the day, her phone rang. It was Joe Riggio, who was inviting us for lunch on him to try a number of different white sauce pizzas (two of the three of us prefer it) as well as some tried and true red ones. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/story-beh...
I'll have to post the whole conversation in a different video, but the gist of it was left in here -- "these are going to blow that pickle pizza out of the water."
Steph's new favorite is the Fig Pizza and the White
Mine was the White -- that ricotta! & the Margherita
Marci's was the White, the Grandma, and then the Fig
But I will say, I would still rank the pickle even with the white -- I wish it would come back!
