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December 11, 2005
...and only in New York...
From Michelle, missing her Alesia and Lani big time...
...do you accidentally catch a bicycle rickshaw, because it's raining cats and dogs and there is no taxi to be found anywhere in the whole of the city...
...so I was in NYC last month for a Kenneth Cole/ Vogue promotion (yeah, I promised you the dirt - soon! I promise!) and along comes a bicycle rickshaw saying "where do you need to be?" and me thinking "oh, like 30 blocks up 5th Avenue - 17th Street - and it's really cold and wet, and I really need to be there!."
Well...
Thirty blocks later, it's also thirty bucks later (I kid you not!).
In the meantime, have you ever seen a singing Christmas tree?
Picture this: today, Oh Patient One and I decided to go Christmas shopping. Unfortunately, so did six billion ( felt l like) Rotterdamse volk (Rotterdam lovely people). It was busy, and noisy, and just so crowded and crowded. And then we saw...
The Singing Christmas Tree!
Picture this: twenty feet of felt Christmas tree. Tweny feet of fake Christmas tree with really bold, gaudy decorations. Poking out of the top of the "so fake and gaudy it's gorgeous" Christmas tree was a, you know, human head. And then the human head started to sing "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer..."
It was so tacky it went off the meter. Oh, I so LOVED IT!
PS. Lani and Alesia - I REALLY MISSED YOU!
Michelle, Festive in Rotterdam
Posted by Michelle at 4:02 PM | Comments (2)
Comments
Wow, Michelle, I always wondered how much those rickshaw thingies cost. Thanks for the heads up.
Posted by: Elizabeth K. Mahon at December 13, 2005 12:42 PM
An arm and a leg is what they bloody cost, LOL. But I can certainly check it off my "To Do" list!
Posted by: Michelle C at December 15, 2005 1:14 PM
