The Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan...
...was the home of "Matilda" the cat...
...who was even shown on TV on Animal Planet.
 
 
 
xmas 2009
december 18 - 20, 2009
new york, usa
The Welcome desk.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sightseeing...
...in historic busses.
 
 
 
 
 
Ground Zero / World Trade Center Site.
 
 
 
 
More sightseeing.
The Grand Central Terminal.
View from the Empire State Building.
 
 
 
Our destination was the Old Town Bar...
...a bar from the twenties.
 
 
 
 
We had lunch and a game:
smuggling alcohol ;)
We bought the alcohol downstairs...
 
 
 
...and smuggled it upstairs.
 
Music from the twenties :)
 
 
 
We had dinner in a restaurant near Broadway.
 
 
 
 
 
After dinner we watched the Broadway Musical "Chicago"...
...starring Ashlee Simpson.
It kept snowing all night, so next morning we did sightseeing in the snow...
 
 
 
...in Brooklyn.
 
We stopped at a not so typical US-Supermarket.
 
 
 
 
 
A fantastic view of the Statue of Liberty.
 
 
 
Back to Times Square...
...to the newly renovated Swatch Mega Store...
...where you could buy two limited Specials.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Special surprise in the evening:
a limo took us to dinner...
...to the Club Swing 46.
 
 
 
Dancing lessons.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Billy the Artist was there and signed his watches :)
Henk and Billy the Artist.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Antonio giving a speech.
 
 
 
But instead of just showing the Xmas Event Special to us...
...he welcomed two very special guests...
...Arlette-Elsa Emch and Klaus Peter Mager...
 
 
 
...coming from Switzerland because they wanted to present the Event Special to us.
 
Mrs Arlette-Elsa Emch raised her glass to all of us.
 
 
 
...and showed a Sneak Peek of the next Swatch collection;)
 
The complete Event Package.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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