We celebrated a magnificent Christmas Eve & Christmas Day at home in Palm Beach with our fabulous family❤️ Nana, Kristy, Amy, Dan, Noah, Chris, Brittany, Connor, & I. All the traditions celebrated together from Christmas Eve candlelight service to opening pressies, & fab Christmas Dinner!! Then it was on to the Big Apple!!
Seeing Phantom of the Opera on Broadway (again!lol!!)
Rockefeller Center to see "Thee Tree"
Connor spotted an incredible street artist & promptly commissioned his name done in "yellow & orange dragons please" Oh how I adore this boy!!❤️
After shopping Times Square (worlds largest Toys'R'Us natch) and dinner at Sardi's (must do!!) we retired to our room to gaze at our glorious city view!!
The next day was wrought with SHOPPING!!! Fifth & Madison Aves. are always our tradition. After Gucci(scored yummy fragrances), Louis Vuitton(scored a new handbag), Tory Burch(scored another handbag) not to mention that Brittany scored a kings ransom of Jewelry (Daddy is a big softee in NYC) after our retail therapy we headed to Laduree for some much needed sustenance = MACARONS!!!! Sooo delish!!!
Temps were lowering drastically so we had to pick up headwear while on our shopping spree!!
After heading out of the city to avoid New Years Eve!! We settled in our home away from home in our hometown on Montage Mountain!! It's always a highlight to spend time with family & friends, especially my sister Kim & her beautiful family❤️
We celebrated a lovely New Years Eve!!
Enter Hercules~storm 2014 everyone was trying to get last min preps ready before it hit!!
A drive through the light display at Nay Aug Park (one of the very first "luna" parks)
Visit the charming Everhardt Museum
Stock up at Gertrude Hawk Chocolates
Brrrrrr....
Well it would be nice to say that's where it ended & we returned home to sunny Palm Beach but.... Upon stopping in North Carolina at the fab Outlets our car decided she had had enough & refused to start!! Rude I know!!! Lol!! We were very fortunate to have restaurants, hotels, etc right there. So while waiting for roadside assistance we had dinner, when they arrived they informed us we would be towed to the nearest dealer (not really nearby) and they would not be open until Monday :( This being Friday you can imagine how very thrilled we were upon hearing this. After considering all of our options we decided to hunker down & make the best of it!!
We called Hampton Inn & were very fortunate they had a room available for us... Now to get there?? We asked the tow truck driver for the no. to the local cab co. He then informed us there wasn't any cab co. so I called Hampton Inn back & inquired as to them having a shuttle? Nope! We figured its a really LONG cold walk so we better get started, when the driver said he wouldn't hear of it & offered us a ride! Well needless to say Connor thought this was awesome!! It's not everyday you get to climb up into a huge tow truck!! :0) When Chris spoke with the dealership they offered to bring us a loaner car until ours could be repaired!! Being stranded in a quaint little town in N.C. turned out to be not so bad after all thanks to wonderful people!!
We enjoyed a few restaurants, saw The Hobbit Movie at the local cinema & enjoyed a charming little town,
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