L was up at five! She looked at the hotel clock and went: “mom, it’s 5am that means we have to wake up.” From the mouth of babes…

I had a cup of coffee in the room and watched the news while L had her left-over orange juice from yesterday and styled her giant Barbie head.

We then came down to breakfast at the hotel. A very generous spread, with sausage, eggs, pasties, and waffles. Coffee and yoghurts. Plus other stuff.

At breakfast there was a family from Western Massachusetts with similar ages kids, so L and their girl Emma played for a bit. I honestly like chatting with people, and that family was really down to earth.

After breakfast it was still early and L and I slowly walked to the Rockefeller center. Because it was so early, the streets were quiet. I snapped so many nice pictures of holiday lights.

I have heard absolute horror stories about how busy the Rockefeller center is during the holidays. But we’re were there on a Monday morning, before 8AM and it was glorious. There were some people but nothing like what I have seen on the Internets. We roamed around, took photos… Went down to the lower level area of the Rockefeller center and got a little lost- it’s almost like a system of tunnels. All wood paneling and old. I liked it.

Before checking out of the hotel, we stopped by a bakery that turned out to be a French bakery. Holy sugar, but whatever, we can detox tomorrow 😘

The bakery was decorated with Christmas garlands and teddy bears. We had coffee, and three pastries: a waffle with vanilla layer, and two soufflés or merengues, not sure. Plus selfies with the teddies 🙂

We were back home at around noon! This was a great trip; we lucked out with the weather (high 50s and dry), and early hours (no crowds). Both my daughter and I ate wayyy too much sugar but can limit sugar for the next few days.

This post is part of my personal writing challenge to document our winter break this year.