A Papa and Daughter NYC Adventure Way Past Bedtime!

Way past Kavya’s bedtime, we’re walking along 7th avenue, through Times Square, with its massive LCD screens lighting up the sky, brightly decorated Christmas store windows and on the sides of buildings. Kavya’s fluffy mitten fingers are coiled around mine, her eyes all over the place. “Look at that funny chair, Papa,” she says pointing at a cement mixer turning down the road. We pause, so I can look. We cross the street. “Are we going to a party?” she says. “What makes you think we’re going to a party?” I look at her grey and pink earmuffs that have slid down her jaw. I suspect the bright lights have something to do with this thought process. The crowds. The decorations. The music being played from some of the shops. Instead, she boils it down to the important bits: “Look at all the candy in the streets, Papa, so many hot dogs and kebabs and rice.” She dramatically gestures with her arms in the general direction of the little kiosks and food stalls we passed a few streets ago. “Of course we’re going to a party,” I say. “It’s a party with just me and you, where we will sit […]