Goodman's, my new found love...

This is not happening!!!!

I just finished my daily post and pressed something and now it is all gone!!!

I could CRY!!!

And so I do.

4 hours of hard and dedicated work gone. Disappeared. Vanished!
Buffffff!!!

Again, poor Prince needs to listen to my sobs and gets told off, when he tries to calm me.

He advises to write everything on word before, like a pre-write. I guess he has a point, but here I am, back at the blog page, as somehow I write better on this page, or so I think.

So I will try to go back now.

Excuse if I will be bad, as I am to busy sobbing and sniffing in our hotel bed.

While I noisily do schniffffff, I watch this 'save now' button going on and on, which means it is saving all the time, so what has happened to mine?

Not my day. Not my month. Not my year!

So where was I? NY... and a new morning in shopping, restaurant hopping capital.

Prince gets up early to go for a breakfast meeting. I am left alone with a mirror that brings me down and an apple that brings me up. (not when it erases though!!!)

I choose to stick to apple and write. Better to up than down.

Around noontime Prince is ready and takes me for another shopping spree on 5th Ave.

Tomy Hillfiger is our 1.stop and I want to take a snoop, as he usually does have some cute dresses.

The store is very impressive and huge compared to what I remember from the past.

It does remind me a bit of Ralph Lauren's mood, though, just a bit younger. We admire the funky disco ball X-Mas tree and I disappear upstairs, level 4, for girly stuff. There is a whole 50's-60's inspired section that is sooooooo "DOWN WITH LOVE", one of my favorite Good feel movies, and a must see for all Good Feel lovers!

Just think bold bright colors, big buttons and stewardess meets waitress look.

Naughty and sexy and fun.

I fall for a lollipop pink satin dress, which is JUSTSOOOO BARBIE.

Who would ever think, that I would ever even consider trying such bubble gum creation, but I do and Prince is just estatic about his life size doll-friend...

I get a turtleneck in the same candy pink cashmere thread (just in case) and another dress, one in brown suede, much more subtle and less...well... less

There is a special promotion on and we pay barely half price, not a bad catch!

They also have a promotional free embroidery service today, but time is ticking away and so many more shops are calling us.

So on we march, admiring the sparkle and the bright blue sky of 5th Ave.

Next stop: Bergdorf Goodman.

But first some replenishing at the inhouse cafe, if there is any?

Yes, there is, the "GOODMAN'S CAFE" on the 7th floor.

7th heaven could also be it's name, as the cafe is the most unexpected surprise.

A lovely fizzy mocktail of art-deco-baroque and fine kitch, spotting a view that's priceless and a crowd, even though mostly female, highly adorable!

I feel transfered into a movie setting, plunging into our baby-blue Cinderella Chairs (no idea what they are called) we savour a pumpkin and a fennel soup, both divine.

There is a woman next table, dressed in a taylored red 40's dress, wearing a elaborate hat and peep-toes. She could be part of the decoration and we enjoy her unique extravagance while sipping organic tea. I must be careful not to get too sentimental, as this setting just makes me want to escape into the past. Where did all this elegance go, I wonder so often. When did baggy pants become the norm for this beautiful wonder called WOMAN?

Where did all the skirts go, all the gloves, all the hats and shy smiles and that mistery that make us what we are?

TIME MACHINE? ANY mad professor out there, looking to send a female into the yesterday? Day before yesterday?

I AM HERE!

Totally smitten with 'Godman's' (good-better-goodman's!) we take the lift down to dress level and do some browsing. Looks like we finally got on the right track.

Prince finds half a dozen of dresses he thinks Santa would like to give me.

I must explain something here, before I go on.

Prince would never be as un-romantic as this, taking me to choose my own X-Mas gifts.

He would wander off, always, surprising me with things he had found, fallen for and bought.

Impressivly, 95% of those gift-adventures have been a success, the rest either too big or not my thing.

But even a bad or unfitting surprise is enough to make a girls eye shine.

Well, Fallen Cinderella, now we choose together.

We decide on 4 simple cocktail dresses, red, blue and lavender by Valentino and Oscar de la Renta.

Nothing too exciting, but nice simple evening solutions, that could also pass a daytime invitation.

Santa, you shouldn't have...

Goodman's closes at 6 tonight and it is way past 7 when we exit the shop. It is a great feeling, like Goodman's was open just for us. But it was the sewing lady that took her time to refit the Santa gifts.

And now the Prince wants his share: APPLE!!!

Let's go and visit the glass cube apple shop, open 24h!

The see-trough box like construction is not very stimulating to me, but Prince is overwhelmed.

I love the eaten apple moon though, hanging over the big apple.

Very appropiate, they should market it.

It is a ZOO!

There are sooooo many people... kids, dogs, grannies, dudes and equally many apple helpers.

Glad in red, they could also be Santa's helpers.

Apple, Santa...  maybe it is all connected?

I know enough people that just want anything 'apple' from Santa.

So if they are one company... ??? It would make great sense. Monopole. Santa owns the gift production too?

Ok, ok, maybe I am tired...
Let's go and play some Wall-e with the little ones, while Prince can browse virtual heaven.

Prince buys one more MAC pro laptop (one more to go around...his XXL office table only! has 4 so far) and then we head for the ultimate cheesy ride with an a horse carriage at Central Park.
After countless visits to the city, we have never done this and Xmas seems to be just the perfect time.

I get the luxury of choosing the prettiest-goofiest, as you wish, horse and I take my liking to BARNEY.

A strong Belgian with a huge(penis?...gosh... it just peed!) and even more huge hoofs.

The driver, dressed in period costume and half a meter of rasta, let's me feed him carrots and he makes the cutest sounds and faces.

So Barney and Peter (rasta man) take us for a spin in Central Park.

The moon is almost full- 2 more nights to go, and Peter is a serious movie buff and knows all the films made or inspired in Central Park.
Prince is singing Arthure's Theme by Cristopher Cross

I also learn, that every tree in the park was brought here, man-made - all of it. Who would have thought?

I had always believed, that the park was the only original piece of the city left...

Getting some water from the Bretzel man

20 minutes and 34$ (not much at all) later we walk around the area looking for dinner options. The first place we pass, an Italian, looks inviting enough and so we give it a try.

What looked like a 'cafe kind of place' from the outside turns into a cozy and warm place inside, another surprise.

The food is again - DIVINE, the wine list one of the most impressive I have seen in long time and the glassweare so beautiful that the Prince inquires about it.

Looks like the owner, from and in Verona, has his own glass factory.

Very fine taste one must admit.


Antica Bottega del Vino


7 East 59th
10022
NY


Tel: 212 2233028
www.bottegadelvinonyc.com

Cantucci  and Vin Santo to finish and back to  rising apple to pick up a new MAC baby. (they need time to set it up and stuff it with all the software)

 A girl dreaming of apples

Boys and their toys...

Nighty night

Christopher Cross - Arthur's Theme

Once in your life you find her
Someone that turns your heart around
And next thing you know you're closing down the town
Wake up and it's still with you
Even though you left her way across town
Wondering to yourself, "Hey, what've I found?"
When you get caught between the Moon and New York City
I know it's crazy, but it's true
If you get caught between the Moon and New York City
The best that you can do ......
The best that you can do is fall in love

Arthur he does as he pleases
All of his life, he's mastered choice
Deep in his heart, he's just, he's just a boy
Living his life one day at a time
And showing himself a really good time
Laughing about the way they want him to be
When you get caught between the Moon and New York City
I know it's crazy, but it's true
If you get caught between the Moon and New York City
The best that you can do .....
The best that you can do is fall in love

When you get caught between the Moon and New York City
I know it's crazy, but it's true
If you get caught between the Moon and New York City
The best that you can do .....
The best that you can do is fall in love