A Christmas time visit to New York City and a quick trip to Winterthur

Last weekend we went to NYC for a couple days. On Thursday we visited the Rubin museum which specializes in Asian art.  They had a fine exhibit of photos by Steve McCurry- mostly from India, which brought back pleasant memories. We had dinner with friends afterword at a fairly traditional Italian restaurant which was mediocre.  They had bad loud music, which they turned down on request, but then we could hear the sounds of a hammer-drill all too well.   As we were leaving we asked about the noise and they apologized but said they had was problems they had to fix that night.
On Saturday we visited Bryant Park which was full of shoppers due to the Christmas market there and the people skating on the ice rink set up there.  For the afternoon we saw "Charles III" on Broadway. It is an excellent show nominally about when Charles becomes king, but also about the monarchy and the parliamentary government system of the UK.
On Thursday of this week we drove down to Winterthur- near Wilmington, DE - to see the house and Christmas displays. We had been there around Christmas about 30 years ago!  We did not remember a lot about the place, so seeing some to the collection of American furniture again did not seem very repetitive.   Seeing all the Christmas decorations was fun too, but the weather outside was heavy rain, so it did not seem very much like Christmas.