The third December weekend, we stayed in good old New York City. A visit to the American Museum of Natural History was long overdue: a new space show narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, a temporary exhibition on (living!) frogs and the butterfly conservatory easily filled our entire afternoon. In the meantime, it started snowing outside – by the time, we got back in our apartment the light snow turned into a real snow storm.
The result in the morning was a nice white carpet of about 25 centimeters high. We celebrated the first (real) snow of the Holiday season with a stroll through Central Park.
I love the park the entire year through but on a snowy winter day, it is especially beautiful and… very crowded. Snowball fights, snowmen building, langlaufing, sleighing, hiking, ... As beautiful as the snow can be during the weekend, every New Yorker wishes that it would magically disappear during weekdays – when you actually need to go out and be somewhere. The roads and pavements turn into a large black slippery puddle of mud (even with the efforts of city services to spread salt on the roads about twice a day). Note to self: don't wear heels the week after a snow storm.
PS: if you think I went overboard on the Christmas blog titles, you should try shopping in the US during the holiday season: Christmas songs will haunt you everywhere you go!
I'm enchanted by your photos... as always! :-)
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing you and catching up!