Merry Shopping ( or how we learned to love Black Friday)
House on Red Corner · 2006-11-25
*[photo — not archived by Wayback]*Macy’s Floor](/wordpress/wp-gallery2.php?g2_itemId=9696) So, Steph dictatedwe decided to go to Macy’s on the first day after Thanksgiving and have a picture with Santa. Um, well, so did half the Western Hemisphere. It’s what is colloquially known as Black Friday - sometimes the busiest shopping day of the year. Fortunately, we had not set our hearts on actually doing any shopping!!
Anyways, not to be easily daunted, we walked up Broadway to Bryant Park to use the Public toilets and discovered the FREE ICE SKATING!!!
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We also found a heated tent provided by our bank, to allow children and families to play and warm up. EJ found it to be quite restful, particularly as she was really starting to get cranky. I scavenged around for some really overpriced sandwiches and was wildly successful! Then I demanded we thought we could go and wait in line to ice skate,since they have Toddler size 9 skates, but it was a really huge line (guess the other half of the Hemisphere was already there!)
After getting really irritated by some meandering Heartlanders behind us, we jumped into the subway and safely emerged into our slumy little ghetto we call home! Ah, another good day were we managed not to kill anybody!