Radio City Hall looked fantastic, with the red Christmas tree, the big decorations across the road, and lots of twinkly trees...
Then, a little further down the road were these...
They were HUGE fairy lights!
All the shops look fantastic and walking around, all wrapped up in scarfs and coats seeing all the Christmas lights made us both feel VERY festive and ready for a fantastic Christmas at home.
The tree looked very impressive, obviously not a patch on the tree at Myrtle Avenue, or Vernon Green - but it was lovely all the same. There were a fair few skaters out on the rink despite the cold weather too.
All around the Rockefeller Center looks beautiful, they always decorate it so well - I absolutely love the trees with all the little lights covering each branch (I wish I knew how they did it...)
The hotel lobby looked loooooovely and Christmassy, it was all cozy and warm - although anytime the door opened we could feel the perishingly cold air coming in, it was blumming freezing outside.
Abi had a Strawberry Dacquori - which was like a strawberry smoothie - dangerously tasty, and I had a Parissean - but I can't remember what was in it really, apart from Gin... but it was mighty fine...
As you can tell.
Take that Rockefeller!
On the way back from work tonight it was snowing ever so lightly - and just now, we looked outside the window and there's a thin (but still thick enough...) blanket of snow outside...
Unfortunately I got them printed and they arrived today, but they looked a bit rubbish - the colour was really dark and they'd been cropped all funny so I'm not going to send them out.
Jeremyville is based in New York and Australia and does quite a bit of work for people like KidRobot and skateboarding brands and his show was of a load of prints and a few skateboard decks.
It was absolutely packed in the little gallery - there were loads of people (not many looking at the work, mainly drinking), we had to wait ages to get the lift upstairs!
We didn't stay too long in the end because it was so busy and we'd come straight from work so we were ready to go home... but it was good to see the gallery space in use and meet some of the guys from Brooklyn Brothers (they're a British company that have come to America too), I think we're hoping that they might be some good neighbours to have in the building.
Crif Dogs is coming to Brooklyn!
We seemed to get there at the perfect time too, we walked in and got a table straight away, even though it was quite busy and then as soon as we sat down - it seemed the whole of Brooklyn turned up wanting a table.
It was so lovely and cozy in there, it's not a very big place so it feel nice and intimate and the lighting's nice and moody (any moodier and I think I would have been falling asleep).
When we got there it wasn't very busy, but by the time were were on to our second pint, the place was heaving! Loads of people had gone along to the brewery bar and taken lots of lovely looking food with them. People had tubs full of cupcakes, pigs in blankets, pizza, bagels... all sorts. We were tempted to steal some of the pigs in blankets!
They were.
Then came a dish that we had to headbutt to get in to...
It was meant to look like a tree stump, it was made out of filo pastry and full of rice and delicious beef - it was the size a main course, so we were all getting a little nervous about how big the main courses were going to be...
The steaks were absolutely HUGE, far far too big to finish but they were nothing compared to the paella 'for one'...
5 bits of salmon! For one person! It was ridiculous.
...and not everything was as it seemed...
This egg and bacon was actually a lemon cheesecake with some manjo on top and the bacon was a cinnamon twist. After pudding we had a magician come to the table and do some old fashioned cup and ball tricks - he was great!
This little chap is sitting happily in our bathroom (he's a soap dispenser with apple soap inside) - and his hat is a real knitted hat!
And this happy fella is hanging out over the telly.
