NYC World Day Meet Meet
December 3, 2005
New York City
Hosted by Tina Krasner and Marie Lemon

Bruce's NYC World Day Meet Report

No one else wrote anything yet, so I guess I will ;)

We all decided to meet at the McDonalds at 7th Ave (also considered Broadway too) between 46 and 47 streets.

I got there early and walked around the Times Sq welcome center, found a pressed coin machine and made one. Tina, her darling daughter and her husband were outside. Tina recognized me and walked over and said hi. I'm bad, forgot to look up photos of the people I was going to meet :)

Marie called me asking me for information where this McDonalds was. 15 minutes later, her daughter June called asking for the same info, she is more familiar with Manhattan then her mom is :)

Ok everyone... just for the record, I am bad with names, so forgive me if I fail to mention everyone's names who was with us :)

Tina pointed our Marie to me at the same time that Marie was calling me again. With Marie, was her two daughters and her granddaughter

Omayra came up to us at that moment and introduced us to her darling son.

It was very cold waiting outside, Tina's husband and daughter preceded us into McDonalds to get something warm to drink. Boy, was McDonalds crowded. After we got our food we searched for about 5 minutes to find table for most of us to sit together.

After McDonalds, the idea of going into the Times Sq welcome center to send a video postcard to the group kind of went no where :(

Thanks Wendy, Marie showed us the nice banner you made for us :)

We all went to the nearby Hersheys Chocolate store on Broadway and 49 st. Marie and her clan discovered something there that they went crazy over.... Special Dark Chocolate syrup. Donations to the Help Marie and her family get over their chocolate addiction will be gladly accepted by me, just send checks made out to the Chocolate And Sugar Helpers (or just make it out to its initials CASH)

Next stop was Rockefeller Center and the tree. We took some photos of the kids in front of the large light bulbs in front of 1221 6th Ave, aka McGraw- Hill building. Had some photos taken of the tree and the art deco buildings. We went underground in search of bathrooms and headed towards 5th ave and 51 st, We left Rockefeller Center by the statue of Atlas and headed north up 5th ave towards World of Disney.

The crowds were unbelievable in the city. But we all managed to get to one place together, a feat we didn't manage later that night ;)

When we arrived at WOD, everyone but me waited to have their photos taken with some Disney characters, so someone else will have to fill in what happened. :) The store was so crowded, that I stepped outside several times to change my mind (haha).

After we all had our share of shopping, we lost Omayra and her son. Later we found out she went home.

We headed south down 5th Ave to look at the windows and the building show by Sachs. We also lost Tina's husband and daughter. While we didn't cross 5th ave, they did. The west side of 5th ave around Rockefeller Center was just wall to wall people.

After we watched the building show, music and festival lights on the buildings facade, someone wanted to go to American Girl store (was that the name of it?) After it took is 10 minutes to make our way one block, Tina's husband and daughter rejoined us. The line to get into that store was around the block, and no one was willing to wait. We were all hungry and needed to sit, so we were going to the Rockefeller center concourse to grab something to eat and drink. So we headed west, and got split up again :)

I worked in Rockefeller Center for years, and I remember a entrance into the concourse that they turned into a store front, so we hit the crowd again to make it into the concourse level by 30 Rock.

We somehow managed to find each other in the 30 rock lobby and headed downstairs to the concourse, next problem was finding tables and chairs.

Like all the rest of the table and chair vultures, we looked for people who were getting ready to leave and take their tables and chairs as soon as they stood up. We managed to get three tables near each other, pushed them together, and went after more chairs for everyone to sit down.

Marie was waiting for another daughter and her ex boyfriend to show up from Penn Station. Tina and her family and me decided to leave. We said our good byes, and I left with Tina and her family to show them a way to catch a taxi to take them back to Penn to catch their train.

A funny thing happened on a side street by Rock center. A police officer was having a hard time keeping the people waiting for busses away from the street to allow others to pass. He was really at the end of his rope, and was yelling at the same person for the third time he said ;)

By the time we made it to 7th Ave, it was evident that they weren't going go to make their train, so we walked all the way down to Penn Station from Rock center.

We sat down together at one of the fast food places in Penn station and had a little bit to eat, then said our goodbyes to Tina and her lovely family :)

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