Catch the ferry for dinner

Garry and I were invited for dinner last Friday by Rachael, my company's global HR director, and her husband Alan. You'll recall that Rachael stayed with us when she visited London in May. Rachael and Allen recently relocated their family to live in New York.

They're renting the most amazing apartment located on the New Jersey banks of the Hudson River. It's a new complex offering some outstanding features (indoor children's playroom, swimming pool, mini-cinema for hire are just a few of the amenities). However, the best feature would have to be an uninterrupted, jaw-dropping view of the New York skyline.

We spent a wonderful evening drinking wine (a superb bottle of Grange even made an appearance at one point), sharing relocation stories and lapping up the world's most famous skyline. It's moments like this that make our time in the North Hemisphere a very special life experience.

A little dose of culture?
The following evening Garry and went to see Spamalot, a witty Monty Python show on Broadway. The show really was every bit as funny as we'd expected. For me the highlight was definitely a power ballard aptly titled "The song that goes like this". The song simply took the mickey out of every diva power ballard that's ever been scored. Too funny.

Afterwards, we walked home in light rain with the neon lights of Times Square reflected in a slick, wet pavement. It seemed the perfect setting for our own power ballard moment until Garry reminded me that my singing skills were no match for those of the artists we'd just heard. I clearly won't be opening on Broadway any time soon.