Rockefeller Tree Lighting

The Tree Lighting

The real beginning of the Christmas season always is when the Rockefeller Center lights up the gigantic Christmas tree put up each year in Rockefeller Plaza.
It's an event all over town...Everyone wants to come to the celebration of the Rockefeller tree lighting. Tickets are sold, everyone wants to see the event, the performances, the celebrities.
If you don't understand why there is so much fuss around this, try looking at some sample videos taken last night.
This Christmas tree, a Norway Pruce to be precise, is lit by around 30 000 Christmas lights! Now I really hope they're not all on a single wire because if they are, it must take time to find out which of the LEDs actually needs to be replaced :) This Oh so marvelous tree also has the privilege, the honor, of being ultimately decorated in its peak by a Swarovski crystal star...to make sure it shines enough, on top of the lights.
I'm being sarcastic and cynical, however I do agree that the lighting of the tree was a very magical moment. To see all these lights at once is an exhilarating feeling, and is well worth bearing with the crowd.

After the ceremony, what else could better close the night than venturing into my favorite Thai restaurant in New York City: Pinto, on Christopher Street, West Village. Lovely delicate refined shrimp dumplings will titillate your appetite, to be followed by their incomparable crab cake served with fresh salad. All in all, in every meal you will find your crudites, your proteins, and for anti-oxidants, do not forget to abundantly refresh yourself with their out of this world Strawberry Mojito, shaken to perfection.

Don't forget: don't miss out the Rockefeller Plaza Christmas tree.

Ladies and gentlemen, may the 2010 Christmas season begin!