I only have two days left working on the farm and while I'm very excited to start working in the kitchen again, I'm really going to miss the people I work with here. They're some of the nicest, sweetest girls, and it's been great actually hanging out with women for a change! So after a year and a half, I'm leaving StoneBarns. But I'm leaving on an eventful week. Yesterday we had our holiday party for work at the Rockefeller's playhouse. By "playhouse" I mean a mansion built as a place for the secluded Rockefeller children to play. When you first walk in, it looks very much like a beautiful old house you would pay to tour. There are portraits of the family lining the walls of the main room where we had cocktails and hor d'ouerves and gathered around lovely crackling fires in the huge fireplaces at either end. We were encouraged to explore the building, which we totally took advantage of. There's a 2 lane bowling ally, a racketball/squash court, an indoor pool that is how I would picture a Roman bath, men's and women's locker rooms, a gym with basketball hoops, climbing ropes and rings, and a full sized indoor tennis court. With a cozy little seating area complete with it's own fireplace. Between each of these are beautiful hallways lined with art and sculptures. Basically, it was beautiful, opulant, and extravegant in the most classical, early Depression-era American aristocracy. The fireplaces were all brought over from Europe where they were being salvaged from old manors, and much of the construction on Rockefeller property, including StoneBarns, was done as a work project during the Depression.

Everyone at the party loved my new dress. Mom got it for me when she was here the other weekend, so I was really excited to wear it. I'll post a picture as soon as I get one.