Music, Magic and 30,000 bulbs...or so we heard....

Hello from New York City!

Well, we've had another action packed day in the city that never sleeps! This morning we enjoyed a personal shopping tour of Soho, Nolita and the famed Canal Street and got the inside scoop on where to get the best buys. We hadn't planned on returning to our hotel before setting out for tonight's big event at Rockefeller Center - but boy can these ladies shop!!! With aching shoulders and plastic bag-burned hands, we trucked back uptown to our hotel, dropped off the bags, popped a few M & M's (a delicious wholesome dinner) and made our way back downtown to soak up the atmosphere around the famous tree lighting - and sadly, that's all we got!

After returning to our hotel, I flipped to NBC to watched the live telecast and quickly saw that unless we camped out the night before there was no way we could've got anywhere near tonight's festivities. We knew it was a long-shot anyway...but I was pretty shocked to see how few people got anywhere near! After all, this is New York - the BIG APPLE in the U.S.A!! Surely they would have BIG SCREENS and BIG SPEAKERS!! Ah well....I guess you can't always believe in the stereotypes....and those in the know do say that New York is like a completely different country. I guess they were right...Darn it.