[Leica] Advice needed - absolutely OT

[lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth)]

Hi Tarek

Glad to hear I all worked out. I'm sure your daughter is even more impressed
with her dad than she was before.

Steve


On 26/11/07 10:33, "Tarek Charara" <tarek.charara@pix-that-stimulate.com>
wrote:

> :?)
> 
> It was absolutely fantastic! I kept the destination a secret untill
> the last possible moment and then I witnessed my daughter just losing
> 12 years in about 1/100th of a second! She was just like the 7 year
> old kid who discovered a marvelous surprise... I guess that I missed
> a very special photo moment there! Those sparks in her eyes, just
> marvelous.
> Then we had a 7 hour trip to JFK and by the time we passed the
> passport control and took the taxi to Battery park it was about noon
> local time. We did not visit any of the monuments, the queues where
> just too long! The queue for the statue of Liberty went right through
> Battery Park i.e 2 hours, the one for the Empire State Building was
> about 3 hours long! So we spent 8 hours in New York looking at the
> buildings, going into shops (Macy's, FAO Schwarz, Apple Store...) and
> as to the culinary experience, hum, my daughter wanted something
> typical from New York so it was Hot dog, Bretzel, Bagels in the
> streets for lunch. Cheese cake in the afternoon. Dinner was also
> "typical american": Hamburger!
> My daughter was delighted and so was I!
> At 11pm we took our flight back, Air France upgraded our tickets to
> business class and we duly celebrated with champagne before sleeping
> through to Paris.