Where do I begin? My granddaughter’s first time in The City, and I wanted to show her everything. Luckily she had an agenda because we were only going to be there for five days.

Day One – Blank Street Coffee, Rockefeller Center, Museum of Broadway, Bryant Park Winter Village, and New York Central Library (for all you Sex and The City fans).

Lillie’s Victorian Establishment for Day One diner was definitely a highlight of our time in New York. The holiday decorations were magnificent. Reservations were booked for weeks ahead but we snagged a seat at the bar and were served a complete dinner there – also magnificent!

Day Two – Central Park, The Met (the original painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware is here – plus works by every famous master I ever wanted to see), Tavern on the Green for late lunch, and then Moulin Rouge at the Al Hirscfeld Theater on 45th Street.

Day Three – Subway to Tenement Museum, lunch at Veselka (great Ukranian restaurant with delicious borscht), subway to Harlem, Red Rooster for drinks and on to The Apollo for Amateur Night. What fun that was – we cheered for the good and booed for the not so good. It turned out that the winner for the adult contest was the mother of the winner in the children’s class. The audience actually determined the winners.

Day Four – Le Pain Quotidien for breakfast, subway to Central Park West and Cooper Hewitt Museum for the Smithsonian Design Triennial, then The Milton for dinner and George Balanchine’s Nutcracker in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.

Day Five – Had some rain earlier in the week but it didn’t change any of our plans. We had a few snow flurries during our fifth day but woke up to snow on the ground. Breakfast at Carnegie Diner where you had to get into a line to wait in a line. When you order blueberry pancakes here, you get a week’s worth! Then on to Macys in Herald Square for their Christmas displays (not as elaborate as past years), Mood in the Garment District, an elegant dinner at Osteria LaBaia, then on the Our Town at the Barrymore Theater on 47th.

Snow outside our hotel on the day we left.

The Other Thing – According to my Fitbit, we walked 72,504 steps which equals 36.25 miles in five days. This Nana was exhausted. But every time with my granddaughter is such fun, it was worth the blisters.