@dlowan,
I always wanted to see the Boston Pops New Year's Eve concert with their obligatory yearly fireworks and Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture.
Now if someone was generous enough to buy me a first class Acella ticket to Boston, supply a New Year's Eve ticket, and a modest hotel roomfor the weekend, this former Massachusetter-turned-New Yorker would bring couple of pounds of Katz's pastrami perhaps? Another modestly New Yorker delicacy?