NYC Rockettes

NYC- Rockettes

November 17- November 19th 2022

I am traveling with Tulip Travel again and this time we are heading to NYC.  Per usual we meet at the office and soon we are on our way. This trip is to see the NY Rockettes. This was my second trip with Tulip to this destination. 

DAY 1: Travel for most of the day. We got to our hotel in New Jersey, I was fortunate as I was able to get my own room on this trip. It happens that way every once in a while. I was content with this. We had dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings, which happens to be on the same property as the hotel. This made it easy. After dinner, it was time for bed.

DAY 2: Up and ready for our full day of Manhattan. We had an arranged bus that took us into the city. This is always nice because we don't have to worry about parking etc. I just got to sit back and enjoy the view. 

Up first we stopped at top of the Rock. We took the elevator all the way to the top and got some great views of the city. It's not the Empire State Building trip to the top, but it has some pretty great views. 

The fun part of getting this view is we get to see a view with the Empire State building in it. 

Its kind of hazy today, but we did get some great views.  We can see Central Park. 

The Top of the Rock tour is pretty interesting. I have much more about this in my Rockettes blog 2021. 

After being up on the top, we headed downstairs, did a little shopping in the Top of the Rock gift store and made our way around the building, we got a back door view of Rockerfeller center. 

I tried to get some pictures through the windows. 

Unfortunately there is scalfling covering the gold statue. The statue is named Prometheus, one of the Greek Gods. Prometheus was known to go against the Gods and give the people fire. He represents humans striving for the quest of knowledge. 

I've never ice skated at this rink, but I bet it would be iconic. 

Some of the art mural in the lobby of Rockerfeller Center.

Up next we headed to the music hall.

Lining up outside....awaiting to enter. 

We took in some of the interior.

We then went to our seats. Ready for the show. 

The show is actually pretty awesome. 

My favorite scene is the Toy soldiers. 

I love how they fall into one another. 

They also do this amazing live nativity performance and there are real live animals. 

It was amazing as always. We caught our bus and headed out of the city. I took pictures as we left.

It is always such an interesting scene. 

 

We went out to dinner later and everyone sang Happy Birthday to me. Great time. TTFN

Extended absence...note

 I had been missing....

WOW! There has been a long period of absence in my blogging. There are of course a multitude of reasons why, but primarily, I was without access to a computer or laptop for the last 2 years as my daughter had possession of my laptop and trying to blog on my phone was just one big pain in the a$$. I did make several attempts to continue despite the pictures moving and the tiny keyboard, but I finally gave up completely and simply forgot I even had this trip style of documentation at all.  When I did return to update, I found that I had lost most of my pictures somewhere. I have spent the last few months just trying to find most of them or tracking them from friends posts etc. It has been a full time job. I have nearly two years of documentation to catch up on and as I began to create some form of systematic timeline chronologically I decided it made more sense to just start here and move backward. So, here I am. A quick insert on where my life is now. Well, I spent the last two years traveling with an agency that assists individuals with disabilities on vacations, so I have been able to travel quite a bit. I have also been dealing with moving from our NY home to Florida. (This has been a much bigger task then I could have ever imagined, but I will not get into that today.) I had some issues with my trailer and the sale of such. I have also had some health issues that I have needed to concentrate on before our official move, and we still have not officially put the house on the market, despite paying rent to a place in Florida for over a year now. But, this is not a blog on my struggles its about the fun adventures that I try to have, so.

A page in my junk journal. 

For those readers who have been catching up. I just today entered my Hawaii trip from October of 2022. It took me nearly 5 days just to get that one completed. I have about 100 more logging adventures to catch up on. As much as I would like to spend time like that one  I simply will never get to a place of current date and time. I can barley remember what I had for breakfast yesterday and despite that some of my most amazing memories have been made traveling I can not recall all things. I do fortunately have a daily junk journal that I have continued to maintain and this does aide in my recall. So please enjoy and bare with me. I leave for Nashville again this week, so anticipate a Country overload. This will be three trips to Nashville over a period of 1 year and Nashville was the theme of the New Years Eve party I attended the 2023-2024 edition. 

Mckenzie Childs: Like being in Wonderland

Aurora NY

November 15, 2022

In the small town of Aurora NY is this amazing place called Makenzie Childs. Perhaps you have heard of it. I have done another blog on the place for their annual Barn sale, but this was the first time I had simply gone to their store. 

Now, I should inform you all that 99% of what is in this store is NOT in my personal budget. This is not to say, that I would not LOVE to acquire 99% of the items in this store because it is all beautiful, and there are people who make room in their budgets for these items, I am simply not one of them. 

Although incredibly tempted. 

Generally, you can tell a MC piece by the checkered pottery pieces that are hand painted uniquely on each piece. I do believe that QVC or one of those home shopping networks does sell these sets at what may be a much more reasonable way of affording them. I personally own only a salt and pepper shaker and a wine topper. None the less. It is fun to dream, to wish and to just simply take in all of these amazing pieces of art made for daily use at ones home. The whole place makes me think of Alice in wonderland....

I do not recall if this incredible doll house is for sale or not, but the detail is astonishing. 

How could I simply shrink down and move myself in? It is charming. Oh Alice, where is the wrong side of the mushroom or perhaps it is the cookies you ate?

Only a dream Alice, we are here....under a tree. A Makenzie Child's Christmas tree that is.

Look there....the white rabbit has been spotted. 

I doooo believe it is Tea TIME...and a very happy unbirthday to you.

I'm late Im late......

Alice did not meet up with a moose, but I am convinced that Lewis Carroll would have, had he seen this guy. 

These wine pouring monkeys could easily be named Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. 

The Queen of Hearts has been seen roaming around the area as both these two have lost their heads. "Off with their heads". 

Even the bathroom has a bit of wonder to it.

The grounds at MC continues to carry the enchanted charm of a story book.

There does not seem to be a hookah smoking caterpillar but this sheep looks mighty suspicious. 

This barn is so charming...I can almost in vision Alice's arms and legs popping out the windows. 

The bells on this garden gate are singing like the flowers all in a golden afternoon. 

What wonder. I simply enjoyed spending time in this magical place and feeling like little Miss Alice in her amazing wonderland adventure. TTFN