Saturday November 4: 5th avenue & the New York Knicks:

Fifth Avenue is mentioned everywhere as the 'ultimate shopping experience'. Although this is probably very true for fashion addicts I wouldn't bet my money on the fact that the largest part of the non-female worldwide population thinks this is correct...

Anyway, since yesterday was Anouck's birtday (and given that I had only bought half of her present last week), I spent the afternoon getting from 18th street to 57nd looking for that what I had in mind (obviously I can't tell what it is because Anouck doesn't know it yet) . Liesbeth had upfront 'designed' her trajectory: first Saks 5th avenue, then the NBA store, then Lindt chocolate ('strange why people want to buy Swiss chocolate in NY to transport it back to Europe ) and finally the Disney store (see picture).

Saturday evening we (that's Dirk,who happened to be in NY also this weekend, Bart & I) went to a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden. Despite the fact that we had bought the cheapest tickets (still 52$ though), the view was great. The New Yorkers didn't manage to outperform the Indiana Pacers at any moment during the game, but the 'ambience' was good. We decided to finish the day in a Spanish Tapas bar, called El Faro...