The Ladies Brasuell in New York: Saturday
First, some background info for those of you who need it. To celebrate Grandma's 85th birthday, and incidentally, Mother's day weekend, the three Brasuell sisters organized a weekend of entertainments, delicious meals, and deluxe hotel accommodation in New York. Margaret, Charlotte, & Grandma arrived on Saturday afternoon, joining Mom (who was already here for a conference at the H'vard Club) and I for a Bryant Park Grill lunch and then a matinee show of Sweet Charity at the Al Hirschfeld theater. Very funny, this show; a favorite scene was one where the two character's are stuck in an elevator at the 92nd Street Y, one of them a claustrophobic. He managed to sing his stuff through his phobic spasms.
Afterward, we met up downtown at the Battery Park Ritz Carlton, where the three sisters & their mom were staying for the night.
Everyone put on party dresses/party pants, then we went back up to Times Square and up up up to the 47th Floor of the Marriot Marquis Hotel, to the famous fully rotating restaurant, The View for dinner. Here's the Guest of Honor, checking the menu.
We did two full rotations in the course of our meal, for the record. I won't slow down our page with all the photo documentation of the delicious stuff I ate, but there were oysters, and gravlax blinis, and rack of lamb, and chocolate lava, and that's just what I ate!
On the margins of Saturday's main events, Mom and I also managed a morning trip to The Point, a yarn shop/cafe in the village. Mom restocked her yarn supplies for the trip home, since her knitting kit was one of the casualties of losing her briefcase on the train. Here we are, stopping to admire the red tulips in Union Square.
Afterward, we met up downtown at the Battery Park Ritz Carlton, where the three sisters & their mom were staying for the night.
Everyone put on party dresses/party pants, then we went back up to Times Square and up up up to the 47th Floor of the Marriot Marquis Hotel, to the famous fully rotating restaurant, The View for dinner. Here's the Guest of Honor, checking the menu.
We did two full rotations in the course of our meal, for the record. I won't slow down our page with all the photo documentation of the delicious stuff I ate, but there were oysters, and gravlax blinis, and rack of lamb, and chocolate lava, and that's just what I ate!
On the margins of Saturday's main events, Mom and I also managed a morning trip to The Point, a yarn shop/cafe in the village. Mom restocked her yarn supplies for the trip home, since her knitting kit was one of the casualties of losing her briefcase on the train. Here we are, stopping to admire the red tulips in Union Square.
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