Friday morning we slept in until about 10AM and then we went out to 84th and Madison Avenue to a linen store that's been there for 38 years. I found Schweitzer Linens a year and a half ago when Mom's supply of handkerchiefs was pretty depleted. Schweitzer has linen and cotton hankies, about the only place that we know of that still does, so we did our little bit to help the economy too! Cabbed it up and back, then set off on foot for Museum of Modern Art, which again was packed and loud and noisy (not the best place for a dementia patient); I can remember when museums were places of relative peace and quiet, not here. There's groups of people sitting on the floor hearing talks about the art pieces, people yapping on phones saying where in the museum they are, there's multiple cafes and food spots, clinking silverware, banging glasses, its a real sensory experience. And then there's the art, only at MOMA could they hang Edward Hoppers and George O'Keefes in the elevator landings!
Gift store at MOMA and the Design Store across the street, packed and busy.
From there down to Rockefeller Center, see tree, ice rink, and its packed too. Up 5th Avenue to 58th, Bergdorf Goodman has really neat Christmas windows, stores are packed, 5th Avenue is wall to wall people, and this is about 2:30 on a Friday afternoon. People walking and texting, yapping on phones, about 1/3 of the people have white earphone cords running down their necks, must be the way that the government controls people (just kidding, I know its iPods/iPhones)! Back to hotel, grab a sandwich at Stage Deli (split it and still couldn't finish), back to hotel, and then Mom and I decide to head back to Bergdorf Goodman and look at lingerie and robes (were going to try to go back to the Linen store but don't try to catch a cab at 5:15 on a Friday), come back to hotel with on sale nice pink English cotton robe and nightshirt that Mom loves.
Took only a few pictures, its a little much manipulating Mom and assisting with the walking, purses, camera, and with all the people you don't want to lose anything. Then when I wanted to take a couple of pictures at St. Patricks, guess what, dead batteries. And there were about as many people at St. Patricks as there were at Rockefeller Center, and everyone it seems had a camera and everyone is jockeying for position; made me think and wonder if cameras everywhere has led to an increase in rudeness over the last years.
More later and there will be pictures!
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