It was a snowy Friday when I headed to New York for the Sloan committee meeting. We spread our work out and then I got a picture of Hector pointing to the winners and we got pictures of Hector, me and Jeanette Wing before Hector took pictures of Erica Stella with me and Jeanette and I went off to check out the hotel room that had a bed with no spare space a center space to use your laptop a long hallway and a bathroom which I left to take the subway downtown and find Suzanne on the opposite corner. after taking the obligatory pictures of shoe stores we walked past Devashan and headed to Amuse where we going to have dinner that started with drinks and focaccia followed by appetizers and then Suzanne's fish and my pasta which set us up for the walk uptown. We knew we were at Lord and Taylor when we saw the lights on the building and the Xmas tree but we really admired the windows done for the holidays in nursery tale themes starting with the princess and the pea and then Rumplestiltskin and Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Jack and the Beanstalk before the Arabian nights and Cinderella made us aware of the time at Nat Sherman's cigar store as we made our way north to the facade at Saks and the Saks windows

that were not as good. Next stop was Rockefeller center where we saw the tree and Suzanne posed before we passed the tree and the skaters and decided to stop in this folk art store before calling it a night.