Saturday. With Pictures.

Saturday happened to be the Boyfriend's birthday. Because we are incredibly not cool, we hardly did anything out of the ordinary to celebrate - but still had a fantastic time. And I took lots of pictures.

We decided to get up early on Saturday morning - which did NOT happen - to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge - which did. After lazing around and a trip to the post office we set out on our little adventure. First, we had to figure out how to get there, which proved to be much more difficult than we thought it would be. We figured we had to get to the Blue line on the subway, which gives you access to the A and C trains. When we got there, we noticed a sign that said the C train wasn't running - no big deal, we can take the A. So we jump on the next A train and one stop over we end up at the East Broadway stop in Manhattan - exactly where we wanted to get to, but by foot! Turns out, the A was running on the F track, so we had to backtrack and walk. Which wasn't a big deal, except we were already walking a mile and a half across the bridge and then some. Either way, we made it to the bridge and started the trek over.

If you've never walked across a bridge in your life, I'd recommend it. Here are pictures!

Starting the walk over...

Boyfriend!

The first of the two big towers

View of lower Manhattan

Having fun yet?

Upper Manhattan - Empire State Building!

When we made it to the other side, we headed over to Park Avenue where the city was hosting something called Summer Streets. Each Saturday in August the city shuts down Park Ave from the Brooklyn Bridge alllllllllllllll the way up to Central Park. Let me stress to you: shutting down an entire road in Manhattan is no small thing. I'm sure the surrounding areas were a total nightmare (more so than usual) but we sure enjoyed it! And, as you can see, so did a LOT of other people:

So many people were out enjoying the day - biking, walking, running, whatever. There were several stations set up where you could learn how to ride a bike, and people of all ages were taking advantage of it. It was really pretty funny to see women old enough to be my grandmother learning how to ride a bike for the first time!

And this shirt... Please excuse the language, but I had to take a picture of it because IT IS CLEARLY A KIDS SHIRT. Kayla... I'm going to buy this as a onesie for Wes... (it says "eff you you effing eff")

Here is boyfriend being a dork... the street sign says "Avenue of the Strongest".

At some point we turned off Park Ave, which turned out to be great because we stumbled across a little street market. Right near Chinatown. Hello, cute and cheap knockoff stuff. I bought a really cute scarf - its never too early to stock up for winter, right?!?!

From there we continued wandering - we stopped into a random shop that turned out to be the Opera House thrift store - all the clothing, props, etc that are used at the theater are sold at this store. I bought a beautiful long, grey wool coat for $50 - its never too early to stock up for winter!! We grabbed lunch at a tiny little place near NYU - best falafel ever. Then we were absolutely and utterly exhausted, so we headed home for showers and naps.

The rest of the day was pretty low key - we went to Chili's for dinner because we have like $200 in gift cards. Then we decided that we were exhausted from our 6 hours of walking around the city, so we went home early for dessert :)