Can you feel the love tonight

It’s been a great couple of days full of family, holiday and New York activities. I knew it was going to be a fun Christmas when Granny and Grandpa walked in the front door on Saturday and Granny announced to Katie, “my medicine has LSD in it, want some LSD?” Laughs continued for the rest of the weekend, plus a healthy dose of Christmas cookies thrown in for good measure. We had our traditional Greek Christmas meal (spinach pie, grape leaves, Greek salad) on Monday and welcomed Dave, Lisa and Ellie to town later in the day.

We all headed into NYC on Tuesday—first to see my apartment and have dinner in Brooklyn Heights. I got lots of good decorating ideas from Granny and space maximization ideas from Grandpa. We didn’t have a ton of time for dinner, so we headed down the street to Sea Asian. While not sheshe Asian fusion, it was a definite "go back to" local restaurant.

Our second stop was Times Square, where we had tickets to see the Lion King musical. What a show!! The costume design was remarkable. Some actors were dressed in giant animal suits while others, like those who played the lions, looked like people but moved like animals and had lion masks that could be moved in front of their faces. Even the grass had actors behind it. The musical was more than two hours long but it kept my attention and smiling throughout. Hakuna Matata!!

The train ride back to PA was capped off by a bunch of drunken idiots who kept screaming like Howard Dean, talking about their “Buttery Nipples” and “Jager Bombs” and yelling “who had a merry Christmas.” The ring leader kept saying he was the fire chief of Hamilton Township. Let’s hope such a loser isn’t really in charge of public safety! The conductor was ready to kick them off the train but their stop came up before he had the chance. In a bit of sweet justice, one of them left her cell phone on the train. Yours truly thought it would be funny to send inappropriate text messages to everyone in her phonebook. But I chickened out in the end and settled on curtly answering the phone when she called and telling her that she and her drunk friends annoyed me and that maybe she would find her phone at lost and found the next day and maybe not. Can you feel the love tonight?! (Of course I handed the phone to the conductor)

Back to work and Brooklyn Heights tomorrow.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE TAYLORS