Daddy Daughter Days

This time of the year always reminds me of the wonderful times I had spent with my dad in the City during the holiday season. I always looked forward to those Daddy-Daughter days when he was mine for a day and we could wander the city, go shopping and of course eat. It was a tradition that he and I would hop on the train to Grand Central and spend the day shopping up and down Madison and Fifth Avenues. We'd start out on Fifth, and stroll up the Avenue mostly window shopping until we'd get to his favorite place in Rockefeller Center -- Teuscher Chocolates. This magical chocolate shop, was filled with all kinds of chocolates flown in weekly from Switzerland and wrapped in the most elaborate boxes, one more fantastical than the next. My favorite were the champagne truffles, which made me feel so grown up and sophisticated -- oooh, Champagne was inside so it must be the best. Dad would get his dark chocolate covered orange peel and we'd eat them all as we strolled up the avenue. There was another location conveniently located close to one of his favorite wine shops, the original location for Sherry Lehmann, which was on Madison Avenue. So we had options and bribes. I'd bribe him to go up 5th with me and he'd get chocolate; and he'd bribe me to walk into Sherry Lehmann while he spent hours and hours talking about wine -- then I'd get chocolates -- and clothes.