Yeah. I've been taking a little bit of a break from my digital life. Too much going on in real life to maintain both. I feel like I'm talking about being bi-polar. Maybe that's why I need a break.
Anyhow, Jess and I have been quite busy lately now that the weather has become spring-ish. Lots of outdoor activities. I mean really, who wants to be indoors on their computer when it's beautiful out? Especially if you aren't being paid for it?
Here's a little photo recap of our adventures from March, April and May.
Adventure #1: I spent the day wandering in two of my favorite greenspaces in Brooklyn: The Green-Wood Cemetery and Prospect Park. I even took a walk past our first apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn and picked up a bagel from the best bagel place in NYC (in my humble opinion), Terrace Bagels.
Best bagels (and sandwiches, and cookies, etc.) in NYC.
Beautiful trees in Prospect Park.
Look familiar? One of the many underpasses to the bridges in Prospect Park, which was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the same designers as Central Park.
The Audubon Center and Boathouse. This is where I wanted to get married, had we gotten married in NYC rather than Gatlinburg, TN.
Horses that guard the southwest entrance to Prospect Park
Adventure #2: Jesse and I took a day trip to Doylestown, PA for the American Icons: Elvis at 21 / Muhammed Ali photo exhibit, which has been traveling throughout the US. If it is coming anywhere near you, I absolutely recommend checking it out. And by the way, Doylestown, PA is absolutely adorable. It is a perfect example of small town America.
Adventure #3: We spent the surprisingly bitter cold day at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island. So much fun! And I'm sure it'd be even more fun if it was warmer out. It also happened to be opening day for Luna Park... needless to say, it wasn't crowded due to the weather.
Adventure #4: One of my favorite adventures so far - I went to the Sakura Matsuri Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. I've tried to go every year we've lived here so far and every time I always end up having something else to do, so I was thrilled to make it this time. Absolutely gorgeous.
Adventure #5: I took another alone day, this time to Coney Island before the summer crowds hit. It was chilly, but peaceful. One of my favorite ways to enjoy the beach.
Adventure #6: Mother's Day Weekend, we spent down in Virginia with my parents. We took my mom to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello for the day. It was a perfect day filled with lots of sunshine, beautiful surroundings, rich history and plenty of laughter. I love my family. I highly recommend visiting it if you have the opportunity.
Jesse and I in front of Monticello. We were pretending it was our new home.
Gardens at Monticello.
My mom and my step-dad.
Gardens at Monticello.
Jefferson's Grave
Adventure #6.5: On our way home to NYC from Virginia on Mother's Day weekend, we decided to make a little pit stop off of I-78 in Shartlesville, PA to check out Roadside America: The World's Greatest Miniature Indoor Village. What a fantastic piece of kitschy Americana. Jesse and I loved every minute of it.
ROADSIDE AMERICA is an unforgettable panorama of life in rural United States. The exhibit spans more than two hundred years in time and lets you see, in exquisite miniature, how people lived and worked in pioneer days … through the years since then … right up to the present. In newspapers and magazines, ROADSIDE AMERICA has been acclaimed as the greatest known miniature village—the most unique and detailed masterpiece of its kind in the world. Actually, it is not one village, but many—really the American countryside as it might be seen by a giant so huge that he could see from coast to coast.
- Courtesy of the Roadside America, Inc. website
A few blog updates:
We didn't win the Apartment Therapy Small Cool 2011 contest, but that's okay. We just enjoy entering it and getting feedback on what people think of our space. Honestly, we didn't figure we'd win anyhow. It's all in good fun.
Happy Be-lated Mother's Day to all the mothers out there! Check out a little project from my work that honors Mother's Day.
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