Central Park and Snowflake Show at Saks

 

View of Central Park, New York

  

So, to continue about our trip, after we left Balto we walked around in Central Park a bit.  It's a beautiful park, although these rather dreary, winter pics don't do it any justice at all.  We only explored the southern area a bit.  The park itself is huge - not enough time for us to see it all.  I'd like to go back in the spring and just explore Central Park for the day.

  

At this point it was time to turn back and head down 5th Ave.   By the time we were passing Saks again, it was dark and we stopped to watch the "snowflake show".  Saks has huge, lit snowflakes all over the outside of their building, which by itself, is very cool.  However, every so often, music starts and the snowflakes are synchronized to the music and it is a really wonderful show.  I happened to find a clip of it on YouTube - watch it if you can, it's so neat:

After watching the musical show, we went to TGI Fridays and had a bite to eat, then back to Grand Central Terminal.  We have a little routine before boarding the train home - we always go to Hudson's News and pick out a magazine for the trip home.  Then, Starbucks.  One for the road, you know. :-P  We usually try to board the train early enough so we can get the set of seats where there are either 4 or 6 seats and they face each other.  This year DH didn't even get a magazine - he and DD brought their ipods to listen to (DH listens to geocaching podcasts - Podcacher, to be exact.  Yes, this man lives and breathes geocaching.).  Finally, after about an hour and a half on the train, our station is called over the loudspeaker and it's time to say goodbye to the train, and our wonderful day in NYC was over.  Thanks for coming along with me - it was really fun to share! :-)

Well, believe it or not, I have one more small holiday trip to tell you about that we managed to fit in between snowstorms this weekend.  It's not nearly as exciting as this trip, but it's something I look forward to every year.  So stay tuned...

The end.