While in Swedish school I learned that when you wonder how a person is feeling you ask him 'How are you?' And you will answer about how you are feeling. It takes a while when you are here in the US to remember that the question,' How are you?' doesn't mean the same thing.
In Sweden there is a commercial for a telecom company running on TV about problems in business relations with Swedes in other countries. On one commercial a Swede meets an American and he says How are you? ,and the Swede start telling him, as he learned in school how he feels exactly. Oh his stomach hurts,and he can't sleep at night etc. It's so funny.
Yesterday I started the morning with a good breakfast at Rockerfeller center and then a look at the Christmas tree they were building and at all the skaters on the ice. It´s so mcuh fun seeing all the good skaters mixed in with all the Bambies on ice.
The rest of the day I just walked around taking photos, looking at people, and every now and then went in to a shop to get warm.
As most of this trip is business I had to start working after lunch and it continued on way into dinner.
We had our last meeting at a restaurant called Nobu at 105 Franklin. I had read about it and it should be an experience with good Japanese food in a mixture with Manhattan style food. Also read that Robert de Niro was part owner. We tried the tasting menu in the same way we did on our first evening here, and we were so disappointed. It wasn't so much food, and it didn't have the same sensation as the Spice Market. The sore point was that it cost three times as much. So it was not at all worth the money. The best part of the visit was the service. They continually watched to see what was needed and took care of our every need.
So a bit of a disappointment.... we went home in the night to our hotels.
