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We decided to take a break in the cocktail lounge and enjoy our chance to walk out on a bar tab with permission.  Again we were doted on.  The staff came over and sat with us while asking to hear all about the Housewife Heroes contest.  They oohed and aahed over the prize package and were very excited that we were meeting Melissa Gorga.

Excuse me waiter, there’s a tree in my drink!

We don’t need to go to Rockefeller Plaza to see the Christmas tree. Just look in my drink!

Yummiest tree ever.

On our way to Rockefeller Plaza, we had a photo-op in front of policemen riding horses.

Unfortunately, “riding the horse” made me think of the Gangnam style video.   

Oh yes I did.  I broke out into dance.  Right in the middle of Times Square.  My kids disowned me when they saw these photos. 

I guess I had too many of those Christmas tree drinks…

Decided it was a good idea to get some food in our bellies so we took a taxi to Lombardi’s.  Jimmy and Jake had very similar responses when we told them we ate the oldest pizza in the US.

“That must have tasted rotten.” “Was the cheese green?”

Oops. No smiling next to Mona Lisa, right?

No teeth allowed.

Just think how many cupcakes I could make with THIS!!

The only thing green is the basil.

  Speaking of green stuff, Rockefeller Plaza was just gorgeous!  Although you couldn’t really tell it was a green tree under all the lights.

The bar could make a TON of drinks with all these branches.

(Before you think I’m completely ditzy, I DO realize it was a rosemary sprig in my drink.  But, naturally, I had to seize any opportunity for a joke.) 

30,047 lights on the tree. I counted.

Looks just like our tree at home!

Hallelujah!

I decided to stay off the ice.  Weak cheeks do run in our family after all (Remember, “A Pain in the Coccyx?“).  I didn’t need a pain in the butt during lunch with Melissa.  But Jim came anyway.  Ba-Dum-Ching.  (Sorry Jim, I couldn’t resist.)

I’d hate to have to untangle THAT string of lights.

I knew my flute skills would come in handy again some day…

Touching the giant ornament…or AM I??

We did some window shopping.

For a city that never sleeps, the chocolate store surely does close early…LET ME IN!

Mini Rockefeller Plaza. Lego style.

Surrounded by tall buildings!

Window shopping on 5th Ave. A must.

It may be the city that doesn’t sleep. But it does get tired.

Up next “NYC Part 3 – In The Lyme Light.”  What lunch with a celeb is REALLY like.

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