Pictures of the Week: NYC Winter's Eve

After a bite to eat at Boston Market in the city, my friend Mike (who has turned into a total New Yorker) and I went down to Lincoln Center where there was all sorts of action surrounding the tree lighting ceremony. I guess this is the 6th year that they've done this Winter's Eve celebration in the Lincoln Center/Columbus Circle area, where they have free music and entertainment, in-store promotions and dessert tastings, and samplings from local restaurants. In a way, it's like a kick-off to the December holiday season (it seems too early!!) One of our family friends produced a 15 minute version of A Christmas Carol so I met Che, Doug, and our friends Nancy and Danny for that.

These aren't the greatest pics of NYC, but it gives you a little flavor of the action up here.

The Christmas tree lighting at Lincoln Center. (This isn't THE Christmas tree...that one is at Rockefeller Center and will be lit on Wednesday.) That building on the left is where my high school graduation took place.

Some dude doing some ice sculpting. He's got a Santa going on here...he also had a snowman and a sleigh that was already finished.

The abbreviated version of A Christmas Carol being performed at the base of the Christopher Columbus statue in Columbus Circle.