Downtown Last Night

Last night we went downtown and had a wonderful Hanukkah dinner with Dick and Iris, Katie and Todd and the kids at their 16th floor apartment on Main Street and Lafayette Square. We had some great family time and enjoyed ourselves. They ordered the Jewish food from Zingermann's Deli in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We've been there when Katie and Todd lived in Ann Arbor. The food corn beef was amazing.

When we left their apartment we realized it was a crazy Saturday night after Thanksgiving in downtown Buffalo. The city was hopping. In building lobby we came across a group of young women obviously dressed for a night out heading for a limo bus. We thought they were going to a bachelorette party until we saw lots of guys on the street too and they were all dressed in disco themed costumes. Then we remembered the annual World's Largest Disco was happening at the convention center that night. We saw lots of people dressed in sequins and disco attire. 

It turned out there were several big events downtown on that Saturday night. Shea's Buffalo was sold out for their annual performance of The Nutcracker.  Down the street the Key Bank Auditorium was sold out for a Genesis concert.  I saw today that the World's Largest Disco was sold out too.

I was surprised there were so many people out at these large crowd events on a weekend when everyone is getting  together for family gatherings and Christmas on the horizon. There would certainly seem to be safety issues with another virus variant on the way. Maybe people thought it was now or never or at least for another few months.