Great Weekend in the City

Continuing a tradition that goes back to 2002, the Almonds, Kneebones, and Paces (the Thomson's couldn't make it) journeyed to New York for a long weekend.

Probably the highlight of the trip was attending the Broadway show, "Nice Work If You Can Get It" and also taking in Andrea Marcovicci's "Smile" cabaret show at the Cafe Carlyle. 
the show was far better than expected (how can anything with the music of the Gershwins not be great!).  And I thoroughly enjoyed Andrea's cabaret performance.

Naturally we had to eat!  Lusardis on the Eastside was a tremendous joy (including my truffles) followed by dinner at the Brasserie.

The ladies even had time to spend shopping at Sak's.

We ended with a more casual dinner at "The Man of Kent" to return back to normalcy in Vermont.  Photos of the trip may be seen by clicking here.

After the Peepers Leave . . .

With the seemingly unending presences of our visiting peepers, we decided it was time to get in the car and take a little drive around the countryside to do some peeping ourselves.  Due to the past wind and rain storms, much of the foliage was off the trees - but it still was a lovely view.  Janet had time to stop and get some decorations for the season.