I went to New York for the first time in my life and took all of three pictures of the city. The rest of the photos happen to be of dogs -- a friend's dog, dogs in Central Park, dogs walking down the street. Not exactly the sorts of photos that postcards are made of.
New York was amazing. It was exactly like we pictured it, yet much more. We ate extremely well and treated ourselves to one really great dinner at Tabla. While we spent most of our days in meetings and interviews, we felt that we made the most of our trip by not forcing ourselves to do anything touristy and instead focussing on experiencing the city as if we lived there (which of course meant eating out every night and working all day).
The biggest disappointment of the trip also serves to illustrate why New York is so wonderful. While walking down the street, we passed the Alliance Française and their window advertising a concert with Jane Birkin performing the works of Serge Gainsbourg for that night. Tauntingly splashed across the poster was a big red "Sold Out." Ben and I actually stopped in our tracks and tried to plot how we could get tickets to the show as well as get out of meetings for that night. When we realized -- or rather when the people we were with convinced us -- that the meetings were probably more important in the grand scheme of Six Apart, we were resigned to fantasize how great it would have been to attend.
This concert, a concert seemingly custom-planned for us on our trip, is why New York is so fabulous. So much to do for so many different types of people. We're definitely looking forward for our trip back.
