A sublime Saturday morning found us at Central Park with the rest of residents of the borough of Manhattan. There were people everywhere...biking, jogging, working out with personal trainers, doing yoga with a group of cohorts, kids playing soccer, tourists riding in pedi-cabs. Central Park is clearly the place to be on Saturday. Riding bikes in Central Park is one of my sister and her husband's favorite things to do on their day off, and it is a really great way to see ALL of Central Park and do a lot of people watching at the same time! So Brent and I rented bicycles and joined the citizens of Manhattan on their favorite Saturday past time.
There are many things you have to know about riding bikes in New York City. It is a great way to get around. You CANNOT ride on the sidewalks, unless you want to get chewed out by very verbal elderly women. When riding through Central Park, you ignore the pedestrian stop lights or you will get plowed over by the serious roadies. The only exceptions to that rule would be if an actual pedestrian is waiting to cross, or if a police officer is nearby...although I'm told they don't often pay attention to the minor infractions to the law. The New York way of life is very different than the west coast, indeed, as I have been told by many people.
What a beautiful autumn Saturday!
The Bethesda Fountain has to be the most beautiful place in Central Park. LOVED it!
I had to put these cute pics of my sister and her hubs in bigger so they can see them better!
Click play to see a sweeping 360' of the Bethesda Fountain, and as a bonus(!)
you get to hear a talented family sing "You Raise Me Up"
Milo was such a great sport on this whole trip and just loved being packed around all over the place!
4 months is an easy age to travel!
Strawberry Fields is the little corner of the Park right by where John Lennon used to live and where he was assassinated. It is said that he used to hang out in this part of the park, as it was right by his penthouse. Brent is a great fan of the Beatles, so this was particularly fun for him.
This imagine circle was a really fun place to watch tourists from all over the world. There were British, French, German, etc, etc, lining up all over the place to take a picture in this circle. When someone moved out, another person or group would jump right in. Brent had to be quick! A large group of German teenage girls took a picture laying on their backs all around the circle. It was so cool, I wanted to take a picture...but I wasn't quick enough!
After our bike ride, we drove up to Little Italy in the Bronx and ate Italian dinner and Italian pastries! So fun! And then after that, we drove up out of New York City for about an hour to Sleepy Hollow for a Halloween Pumpkin Blaze! It was really awesome! There were thousands and thousands of carved pumpkins lit and arranged into displays all around the Sleepy Hollow manner. It was very festive, and not too scary...which is exactly what I like! My only wish is that we could have spent a little more time up there around Sleepy Hollow to see a little more of New York, out of the city.
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