February 9th, 2012

oh the places we’d go

One of my all time favorite things to do is give presents. If I had a million dollars (if I had a million dollars…), I know exactly what I would spend it on (aboard the world with my entire family… booyah), but I’d also reserve some for all the awesome things I can’t (also shouldn’t) buy for Christmas/birthday/Valentine’s Day/etc. presents.

To wit:

Vacations (Thailand, Australia, Ireland) for everyone to go together. My family is HILARIOUS on vacation, especially if we all have our own rooms and bathrooms and someone can speak some of the language. Also, we like to eat, which leads me too…

Foodie meals at the best restaurants. A few years back the Chop and I went with my sister and her then-boyfriend to Craft in NYC. We racked up an INSANE bill, but it was also one of the best meals of our lives. So we’d need to visit these chef’s restaurants: Thomas Keller, Grant Achatz, Ferran Adrià, Wylie Dufresne, the Voltaggio brothers, Tom Colicchio, Alain Ducasse, Heston Blumenthal, Daniel Boulud, Eric Ripert and David Chang. To start.

Handmade furniture. I find the most awesome artists online and if I could afford to spend $8000 on a table, we’d have a few. Although the Chop would kill me on it.

Private plane and pilot. Hello, how else are we going to get around the world?

Live in housekeeper/chef/butler/driver. It’s one of my dreams, to be able to work and play and have someone make me dinner, pick up groceries and open the mail.

Why did I start thinking about this lately? Because people seem to be up-in-arms about what Blue Ivy (child of Beyonce) received as baby gifts… and that’s freaking ridiculous. Of course she’s going to get thousand dollar strollers and several thousand dollar pieces of art – her parents are filthy rich and their friends are filthy rich. You can’t just show up and give her a layette set and stuffed bear (unless it’s crusted in jewels of some kind)!

Update 2/11 And holy crap, that is one cute baby they made!