Fun in NYC!

After leaving the mountains, I spent a wonderful night in Denver - a quick bit of shopping at the restyled Casual Male XL (formerly Casual Male Big & Tall - I'm told Big & Tall made people feel bad so they didn't shop there), and attendance of not one but TWO movies - what decadence! I saw "The DaVinci Code" (I wish they had webcams so you could watch the faces of the few Christian fundamentalists who actually dare to see the movie - I'd love to watch them squirm at its "heresy"!), followed by the latest X-Men film. I really liked DaVinci, but felt indifferent about X-Men (despite it's phenomenal performance at the box office this holiday weekend). Got up at the crack of dawn and left for NYC yesterday.

Arrived in NYC, checked into the W Hotel in Times Square - a very hip and sylish place, to be sure. I was upgraded to a corner room with two views of the city - very cool. I then went out for sushi with my friend Margaret and went back to her apartment for some sorbet and watched the last-ever episode of Will & Grace on her Tivo. I thought it was OK, but in their desire to satisfy fans with a neatly wrapped-up ending (which is good), it got a little disjointed and didn't flow as smoothly as most of their episodes do - their writing is usually VERY tight. They took a lot of liberties with this last episode, which I guess is OK. Margaret's apartment was worth the 5-flight stair climb to see it, it was small but really nicely decorated.

Then went out for margarita's followed by Thai with my dear friend Mike from colleage. He's doing so well, has a fabulous boyfriend (wasn't in town but Wilbert and I met him at Christmas), is on his way to a fabulous career in psychiatry, and is buying a brownstone in Brooklyn (you're forgiven, darling). Is always so nice to see him - he's one of my favorite people and I think he always will be. Love you, Jennifur!

Today was all about shopping - first Rochester Big & Tall where I fed my Ralph Lauren addiction with five lovely, brightly-colored button down shirts, then to the new Apple store on 5th Ave. where I got something fabulous for Wilbert that I can't yet talk about because it's a surprise! :-) Then lunch with my cousin Key, who is very smart and very sweet and is marrying a very cute 1/2 Russian boy next month! Congrats, hon! I was sorry to have missed her sister Ashley who also lives in the city and works for Wilbert's and my favorite company, Aveda.

Now sitting at JFK ready to fly home. It's been a very fun trip, but I have missed Wilbert and the kitties a lot and am ready to be at home for a while. Unfortunately, I'll be on the road again pretty quickly - Prague, Copenhagen and Athens all in the month of June. No rest for the wicked! Might sound disingenous to complain about having to go to such fabulous places, but believe me, it gets old after a while.