We left D in Seattle for five days in early October while we traveled to New York for the wedding of a CMU friend. It felt luxurious to uber to and from the airport and pass on major tourist activities in favor of a low key Brooklyn weekend with friends, confident in the knowledge that this wasn’t our first or last trip to New York.
The wedding was held at the roller skating rink in beautiful Prospect park. After a slightly wet ceremony we retreated to the covered, open air rink for skating, dancing and dinner. Skating uses muscles in the shins and feet I apparently never use, so it was surprisingly hard. Luckily the groom was quite comfortable on roller blades, zooming among the guests. There were 13 former CMU architecture students in attendance, so it was quite the reunion.
Traveling without a kid, or actually traveling at all, since we’ve mostly stayed close to home during these house-building years, was heady stuff. The plane ride was un-interupted reading time. Arriving in New York late at night is no problem and we had a delicious meal in a bar at midnight, which we were awake for, thanks to the time change.
We walked a lot, as one does, and followed our friends to local favorites like Gorilla Coffee, Betty Bakery and the Brooklyn Cat Cafe. The smallest kittens were in a sort of terrarium.
We also enjoyed walking the high line (the old elevated train line reclaimed as a park http://www.thehighline.org/about) with the newlyweds and visiting an underground (in the literal, not legal sense) ping pong bar. I bested Jack in a close set!
Fortunately D didn’t mind the separation much and had a good time sleeping over with a PEPs friend and staying at our house with Grandma Lori.
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