New York Saturday

Saturday is Cynamin's "Shop 'Til You Drop" day- the whole day free to do as you wish--museums, shopping, sightseeing, etc. For our gang, Saturday is the traditional pilgrimmage to the Carlisle Collection outlet on West 55th. After that, it's lunch and more midtown shopping before the traditional Saturday night penthouse cocktail party.

We hit Carlisle and I found a few deeply discounted things...especially a pretty jacket the normally cost $425 for $39.99!! Then we went to our hands-down favorite lunch place, JoJo.

Then it was back to the Kimberly, so I could watch the Georgia-Auburn game.

The seniors asked Coach Richt for a "blackout" and he said ok- so fans dressed in black and the players wore their seldom seen black jerseys.

Fit right in in Manhattan. Great game-great win-and a chance to relax before cocktails!! LSU also won handily, so that set the group in a merry mood.

Our cocktail party is always fun, and a chance to get group pictures...

Then it was onto DeGrezia for dinner. We had not been there in several years and the management has changed. The food wasn't as good as in the past-how can an Italian restaurant get away with NO simple plain veal scallopini--and the service was definitely not the same. We used to be coddled and catered to, as a group of 30 women in various tables of 6 or 8...but the now waiters seemed to be more interested in talking amongst themselves rather than fetching yet another bottle of $40 wine. Too bad--it used to feel like home.

But home, for more laughs and looking forward Sunday and our favorite New Yorker, Jane Marx.