Calling All Yanks

[-SharonA-]

Watching the Xmas films on 5, it seems that Xmas is celebrated lavishly. Is it like this where you live, all quaint & jolly??
Having spent one Xmas in Miami, I never saw none of this.

[naomi24]

Christmas is celebrated lavishly in New York. It's magical! There really is a Father Christmas ho ho hoing and ringing his bell on practically every corner. Just like in the movies.

[Bobbisox1]

I’d agree re NY , santa stands outside of Macy’s clanging his bell and there’s garlands and big red velvet bows around lamp posts , the carriages in Central Park are festooned with large wreaths too

[naomi24]

Bobbi .... I've been taken by the elves ....by sleigh ...to see Santa in Macy's. He gave me a colouring book and crayons to keep me occupied on my journey back to the UK. Such a hoot! You'd have loved it! Well, you'd have laughed at me anyway, :o)

[pat2604]

Oh dear, I would hate it. Everything seems to have to be bigger and better in New York. You would have to pay me to go there!

[Redhelen72]

Certainly not my experience in Vegas - in fact very little celebrations at all.

[Bobbisox1]

I loved seeing the snow banked up ( albeit dirty snow) and the steam rising through the grids, sadly we saw homeless people actually lying on the grids in cardboard boxes to keep warm

[naomi24]

Lottie, wherever you go in the US, it's all so familiar. Not much comes as a real surprise. We've seen it all in the movies.

[naomi24]

Bobbi, did you go to Central Park in the snow? Beautiful.

[pat2604]

Naomi, as in Breaking Bad!! ;O).
The States have never appealed to me except, of course, the scenery.

[pastafreak]

That's a shame Lottie. I tell everyone they should visit New York...even if it's just for the people.

Bobbi...sadly, there are homeless everywhere nowadays.

[pat2604]

My Dad went to the States on business back in the 60s. I remember he bought my Mum and I back presents of panty girdles, before they were ever soon in the UK!! A Strange gift! I couldn't imagine him shopping for such things.

[Bobbisox1]

Yes Pasta, no more than my own home town
Naomi , loved CO seeing the ice skaters and everywhere was decorated , CP in the snow is very Christmas card like , when we there a young man had the rink cleared, he was an excellent skater and zoomed around the perimeter then stopped, took a young lady’s hand and led her to the ice where he knelt and proposed, how’s that for romance ?

[Bobbisox1]

CP not CO …Central Park

[naomi24]

Haha! I can’t say I ever came across Walter White, or any of his cohorts, lottie - but once in a queue a bloke looked at me quite threateningly and growled, ‘You skippin’ me?’ Me skippin’ him? Wouldn’t dream of it!! Yikes! :o)

[pat2604]

I do miss Breaking Bad and Better call Saul, Naomi. Nothing ever will match it for me. So Brilliant. We were hooked for weeks!! Dinner followed by BB. Perfect!

[gingejbee]

Proof regarding New York Christmas (best Christmas song ever!)

[-SharonA-]

I guess it's all happening in New York then. In Miami, the houses are decorated with lights like here, but that's as far as it goes.

[naomi24]

I’m in the process of rewatching BB, lottie, and will follow with S’all Good Man. Nothing like it!