In a Nutshell

Here are highlights from roughly my last week – in Reader’s Digest format:

· Kansas City to New York City
· Evil Dead – The Musical (sat next to Hurley from Lost)
· People watching in Times Square (highly recommended)
· AICPA meeting (speakers, lunch, networking)
· Filled prescription for sinuses at Duane Reade
· A Chorus Line with Sally and Leisa
· Hugh-ass open-faced roast beef sandwich at Junior’s
· Breakfast at Grand Central Station with Kayte (killer waffles)
· AICPA meeting continues
· At end of day, go to hotel to nap – wake up 8.5 hours later (oops)
· Took out contacts and went back to bed for the night
· Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes!
· Street Meat
· Window shopping along 5th Avenue
· Pumpkin Pie Concrete at the Shake Shack (man, they are good!)
· Passed on the 3-hour wait for the Chocolate Expo
· West Elm shopping
· Passed on the now shorter 2.25-hour wait for the Chocolate Expo
· Dinner at Lunetta in Brooklyn with Sean and Wendy
· People watching on 1 a.m. subway train from Brooklyn to Manhattan (you have no idea)
· Cashmere purchases at Bloomingdale’s (warm and fuzzy on so many levels)
· Relaxing rainy walk through Manhattan
· Fall foliage in Central Park (words cannot describe)
· Skaters in the Park
· The Shops at Columbus Circle
· Stroll through Hell’s Kitchen (rain slowed to a drizzle)
· ‘New York’ hoodie purchase
· Shuttle to Newark Airport
· Flight cancelled due to weather
· Starbuck’s
· Marriott Newark (with over 5,000 feet of meeting space for your next event!)
· Re-routed to Minneapolis
· Village People sighting at Minneapolis Airport – Sort of (actually just a construction worker, a service man, airport security and some guy in a cowboy hat…play along)
· Mini-sooo-ta to Kansas City
· Back at work today and sorting through e-mails and such

Well then, there you have it. I always enjoy the time in New York…both work and personal. There is really no place quite like it anywhere else.