I know I have been neglecting this blog quite a bit lately. Well, now I am in Queens, N.Y. visiting friends from Tibet, while also receiving a visit from a friend from Paris. There is nothing like Tibetan hospitality. We arrived in a snowstorm 2 nights ago to a beautiful spread of Hoko...the Tibetan version of Vietnamese Pho.
The past few days have included a stroll along 5th Ave. to see the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center and the festive window displays at Sax Fifth Avenue, a visit to St. Patrick's Cathedral (This was my 12 year old Tibetan niece's first time in a church. After looking around a bit, she said matter-of-factly, "I guess Jesus must really be important to these guys." Hahaha...She also really liked trying out the holy water. As she was testing it out with her finger tips, she said, "It would be really cool if they told people this was Jesus's tears." Good times.), a trip to the movies (treated by a Brazilian guy we met in the subway who spent the day sightseeing with us), a night at the Metropolitan Opera (my first...finally! We saw a Puccini Opera about the California Gold Rush...it was bizarre to see Opera singers dress like cowboys and cowgirls and sing to each other in Italian with names like "Nick, Dick, Mr. Johnson and Minnie), and an evening at Carnegie Hall (also my first) to hear the NY Philharmonic Orchestra.
The night we arrived here, NYC received the 6th biggest snowstorm of its history...so we got to witness the madness of the Big Apple covered in piles of snow...cars stuck on every side street, snow banks several feet high along the sidewalks, and millions of New Yorkers out sloshing around in it!
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