This past weekend, Kristen, Doreen and I took the Honda Civic down to NYC to visit Kimberly. We drove down Saturday, arriving at around noon.
We stayed through Sunday afternoon and left to come back to New England at about 5:30pm Sunday evening.
In those two days, we tooled around the city and saw quite a number of things......and all the while ate at some simply wonderful places.
I totally forget the names of all the places.....and also the kind of food, but it was really great. 
Our first lunch was at a place with an outdoor room tucked in the back of the place. I think I had a Salmon quiche of some sort that was absolutely wonderful to eat. The combination of great food, and eating in the warm New York sun made it an absolutely wonderful experience.
We saw Brooklyn block parties on both days.....both ethnic in nature and with lots of music and culture. (and there I was on Saturday....without a camera having left it in the car in the hotel garage!)
On Sunday we went to Kim's office in at Clinique and I have to say it is just a wonderful facility and office! I am so proud of my big girl and the wok she is doing....it makes me proud!
The office is in the GM Building, up on I think the 37th floor. The views of NYC are just outstanding, and the office itself is wonderful to look at....just as you would expect a design firm to be. The physical facility is a sight to see, but the artwork placed all around the place is just shorty of outstanding!
It lines the walls, and greets you just inside all the doorways. But the coolest thing are all the paintings that are hung in the stairways between floors....there are hundreds of paintings that have been done from some pretty famous artists. Kimberly tells me that one of the company owners collects it, and leaves it there where people can ask for pieces be hung in employee offices. (we walked up two flights of stairs and saw perhaps 30 pieces of artwork)
Down in the basement of the GM building is the NYC Apple Store. It is a big glass building the juts out of the ground and into the air...inviting people in. Inside, it is probably just like the Apple store in Burlington....but that outside glass building makes for a wonderful eye catching beacon that calls people in!
Saturday evening, Kristen went back to Kim's dorm to stay with Kim, and Doreen and I went over to the Brooklyn Heights Promanade, a wonderful sort of cement park that overlooks Manhattan....a wonderful view at sunset. (more on that in my next post)
Again....still no camera!
That night, Doreen and I stayed at the Nu Hotel in Brooklyn. It is a pretty modern hotel with very contemporary furnishings and color schemes. The place seemed to have the feel of a place that was perhaps designed by a Pratt Institute Student. It had very dark hallways that gave way to very bright (white) walls in the rooms.
The bathroom even came with a vertical chalk board that could be decorated by custom artwork. (which Kim and Kristen did do)
Sunday morning came and we sort of slept late....getting together just about in time for lunch....and a nice lunch indeed, at a Thai place in Brooklyn. Kim didn't think it was 
authentic Thai, but it was darn good either way.
After lunch, we went to a South Street Seaport, which was a lot like Quincy Market in Boston, except it was right on the river with wonderful views of the other part of the city.
After all that fun for those two days, my legs were exhausted! We packed into the car and drove home....and let me tell you, I was tired. I am just not as young as I used to be....but even so, it was a great weekend
The weather was sunny and wonderful.....the traffic down and back was very tolerable, and we ended up at Doreen's at maybe 10:30pm, and the Kristen and I in Litchfield at about 11:00pm.
I slept well.....it was a great weekend, and as I said before....I am so proud and happy for Kim.
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