Thank you all for the nice notes about our anniversary yesterday! Aron and I are actually taking off to celebrate in Montreal over an extended weekend. Neither of us has been, and I’ve heard the city looks beautiful around the holidays (that is, if one can bear the cold long enough to take it in). If you have any last minute tips, leave them in the comments.
There’s actually a much bigger anniversary on the horizon: my parents are celebrating forty years of marriage this Sunday. Happy anniversary to them! And to all of you, enjoy the rest of the week!
It’s hard to believe that ten years ago (today) Ashley and I started dating–sometimes it seems like hardly any time has passed at all. Though we’ve been married three years, we still like to remember the old “anniversary” date. I had just returned from studying abroad in Australia: I went straight to her house on University Avenue, and we’ve been inseparable ever since.
It has been fun looking back over our old photos together; here is one from a viticulture and oenology class that we took together at UC Davis, the year Ashley graduated.
The scene along Fifth avenue during the holidays can be admittedly insane. We made the mistake of trying to take in the newly unveiled store windows on the weekend following Thanksgiving, and regretted it after about half-a-block. We were ushered through the revolving door at Bergdorf’s by a sea of people–a scene right out of an old Charlie Chaplin gag!–and then quickly aborted the plan.
However, the Monday following, after dinner at a friend’s uptown, we had the cab drop us in front of the glowing Plaza hotel around 10:30 at night. With the sidewalks virtually free of people, we quickly forgot the chaos and instead recalled how much we love seeing the city’s famous avenue dressed up for the holidays–especially the windows at Bergdorf’s.
After we uploaded our photos, I saw that the new issue of Lonny has a feature on the holiday windows at Bergdorfs: you can see more images and read about how the displays are made here, beginning on page 48.
