All hail 2006! You can keep it forever
For the end of 2005, KW, AB, JT, and I headed to New York City, home of the rock duo They Might Be Giants. Pictures and video are available.
We got to New York a little before noon, parked the car and took a bus to Times Square. We stopped and got drinks. JT was bullied until he ordered a scotch, so all of us were drinking (lightly). There was a neat international market with some great goodies: Irish Creme Truffles, Happy Hippos (excellent), Pirate Canonballs (YARGH), and soft licorice chews.
Our route was taking us ever closer to Central Park, and we were accompanied by a bitter wind. Once in the park KW demanded an audience with the penguins that she knows are somewhere in the park. Trudging up and down the manicured walkways we eventually gave up. If such penguins exist, they would have been very happy in the Park, for it had started to snow with fat flakes drifting down from the sky. AB had to turn his coat inside out (LEATHER FASHIONS!) and my not-so-waterproof coat was soon soaking wet with melted snow.
We walked back to Times Square, and ate at Shelly's Steak House. The food (steaks, soup, and chicken thing) was excellent. Oh, and the Creme Brulee (KW) and the Baked Alaska (me) was a bit on the good side too.
After dinner we hopped on the metro and returned to the Port Authority, and our bus. We checked into the hotel in North Bergen and chilled awhile, trying to get warm and dry. After a heated round of Celebrity "Hot Or Not" we headed back to the city, and our final destination - Northsix.
![Christmas ornaments off Times Square](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/01-thumbnail.jpg)
![Radio City music Hall’s Tree](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/02-thumbnail.jpg)
![An oddly curving building (NOT the Egg!)](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/03-thumbnail.jpg)
![Skating in Central Park](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/04-thumbnail.jpg)
![High rises](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/05-thumbnail.jpg)
![Police inaction](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/06-thumbnail.jpg)
![The SAME oddly curving building](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/07-thumbnail.jpg)
![JT scales a tree](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/08-thumbnail.jpg)
![The snowing coming down in Central Park](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/09-thumbnail.jpg)
![AB turns his jacket inside-out](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/10-thumbnail.jpg)
![I don’t know what’s happening, but I’m scared.](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/11-thumbnail.jpg)
![Ah, snow. Ah, trees.](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/12-thumbnail.jpg)
![Not a real dog](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/13-thumbnail.jpg)
![What’s the doggs aboot?](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/14-thumbnail.jpg)
![AB battles the evil conquistadors](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/15-thumbnail.jpg)
![Outside Northsix, New York’s OTHER premier rock club](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/16-thumbnail.jpg)
![Getting crowded and smokey](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/17-thumbnail.jpg)
![Flans-O letting people singing into the mic](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/18-thumbnail.jpg)
![Linnell and Wienkauf rocking out](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/19-thumbnail.jpg)
![Dan Miller pickin’ like a mad man](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/20-thumbnail.jpg)
![THE LIGHT!](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/21-thumbnail.jpg)
![The guitars are watchful](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/22-thumbnail.jpg)
![HARMONY](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/23-thumbnail.jpg)
![Flans doing his thing](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/24-thumbnail.jpg)
![THE ALPHABET...OF....NATIONS!!!](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/25-thumbnail.jpg)
![Linnell cuts loose](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/26-thumbnail.jpg)
![Teamwork](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/27-thumbnail.jpg)
![Mr. Claw](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/28-thumbnail.jpg)
![JL is finished...or is he?](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/29-thumbnail.jpg)
![More of John and John](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/30-thumbnail.jpg)
![Gesture, and sing!](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/31-thumbnail.jpg)
![John Linnell breaks out the accordion](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/32-thumbnail.jpg)
![Do do dee do do do dee do do](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/33-thumbnail.jpg)
![Robin Goldwasser (Flansburgh’s wife)](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/35-thumbnail.jpg)
![Blurry Robbin narrating the Venue Songs](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/36-thumbnail.jpg)
![A foot pedal of unknown ownership](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/38-thumbnail.jpg)
![Dan Miller and Flans rocking out](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/39-thumbnail.jpg)
![More JF](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/40-thumbnail.jpg)
![Sing it man](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/41-thumbnail.jpg)
![And some eyecandy for KW](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/42-thumbnail.jpg)
![GUITAR!](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/43-thumbnail.jpg)
![DER DER DEEEDLE DER](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/44-thumbnail.jpg)
![Fingertips! Fingertips!](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/45-thumbnail.jpg)
![Hold out your hand!](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/46-thumbnail.jpg)
![Flans rocking out with Marty](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/47-thumbnail.jpg)
![And then with Danny Weinkauf](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/48-thumbnail.jpg)
![Oh yeah!](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/49-thumbnail.jpg)
![Some more Danny for Kristen](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/50-thumbnail.jpg)
![Oh boy!](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/51-thumbnail.jpg)
![The amazing fog](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/52-thumbnail.jpg)
![I see Dan Miller](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/53-thumbnail.jpg)
![Again, the claw!](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/54-thumbnail.jpg)
![STOKED!](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/55-thumbnail.jpg)
![Towards the end](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/56-thumbnail.jpg)
![Woaaaah](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/57-thumbnail.jpg)
![HAPPY 2006!! One more picture to go!](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/58-thumbnail.jpg)
![The Set List](https://woltman.com/media/posts/61/gallery/59-thumbnail.jpg)