On March 15, Diana Fieg Monaco picked up her niece, Emilie Kestner, in Secaucus, NJ where Emilie and her fellow high school choir-mates had been staying during their biannual trip to the Big Apple, and the two of them met Lisa Fieg in Manhattan for lunch.
Diana and Emilie then spent the rest of the day sight-seeing and being entertained by various drunks and loose screws on New York City's transit system. Though that sounds exciting the real highlight of the day was a visit to the Manhattan School of Music for a vocal master class conducted by an Italian maestro. They also enjoyed the library, Harlem and the fur department at Saks.
That evening the two visited with Diana's friend, a high school guidance counselor, who helped them create a nice timeline to follow toward college admission. (The advice is always more relevant coming from not your parents....)
On the next day, St. Patrick's Day, they watched some of the parade in the city, and then enjoyed a meal of corned beef sandwiches at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, on the invitation of one of Diana's really important clients who just happens to be -- you guessed it -- of Irish descent.
Courtesy of Diana's hair dresser, Emilie now sports a short curly bob which is very becoming to her.
During their four-and-a-half day stay in New York, the choir saw two Broadway shows plus "La Boheme" at the Met and attended a voice master class of their own conducted by members of the cast of "Rent." They ransacked Chinatown and South Street Seaport and slogged through the rain to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum.
Emilie flew home on March 18 and we stopped to take pictures among the bluebonnets on the way home.
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