Summer’s End
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated in NYC in 1882, and today, 124 years later, I celebrated my first Labor Day in NYC. And what did I do to mark this occasion? No labor, of course!
On Saturday it rained. All. Day. Long. The remnants of Ernesto, which formed in the eastern Caribbean Sea on August 24th, landed in NYC nine days later. Hurricane name fun fact: six lists of names are used and rotated on a yearly basis. “Erika”, you will be pleased to know, is on the Atlantic list, and will be back in contention in 2009. Needless to say, Saturday was a wash. :-)
The sun came out on Sunday, so I started with brunch at the Chelsea Market (www.chelseamarket.com), home of the Food Network (my weekend TV-watching guilty pleasure) and the Fat Witch Bakery (www.fatwitch.com) (a new guilty pleasure). Next up was Chelsea Piers for a little bowling action (where I was dubbed “E-Rod” by the “Zwagster”).
A few hours, one strike and some gutter balls later, we made our way to the West 79th Street Boat Basin Café, an interesting (for lack of a better word) outdoor café on the Hudson River. Brownies, bowling and margaritas – not a bad way to spend the day.
And today I went to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. (The Intrepid is closing down for 18 months for renovations, and since I don’t know if Manhattan will still be my home in 2008, it seemed like a good time to check it out.) Intrepid fun fact: the USS Intrepid served during WWII and Vietnam, and ended her service career in 1974. The planes were cool, as was the enormous carrier itself (though, I admit that I felt a bit claustrophobic in the bridge). I was especially intrigued by the bunk art – the doodles and drawings that the soldiers made on their bunks - personal expressions of the soldiers who called it home.
On Saturday it rained. All. Day. Long. The remnants of Ernesto, which formed in the eastern Caribbean Sea on August 24th, landed in NYC nine days later. Hurricane name fun fact: six lists of names are used and rotated on a yearly basis. “Erika”, you will be pleased to know, is on the Atlantic list, and will be back in contention in 2009. Needless to say, Saturday was a wash. :-)
The sun came out on Sunday, so I started with brunch at the Chelsea Market (www.chelseamarket.com), home of the Food Network (my weekend TV-watching guilty pleasure) and the Fat Witch Bakery (www.fatwitch.com) (a new guilty pleasure). Next up was Chelsea Piers for a little bowling action (where I was dubbed “E-Rod” by the “Zwagster”).
A few hours, one strike and some gutter balls later, we made our way to the West 79th Street Boat Basin Café, an interesting (for lack of a better word) outdoor café on the Hudson River. Brownies, bowling and margaritas – not a bad way to spend the day.
And today I went to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. (The Intrepid is closing down for 18 months for renovations, and since I don’t know if Manhattan will still be my home in 2008, it seemed like a good time to check it out.) Intrepid fun fact: the USS Intrepid served during WWII and Vietnam, and ended her service career in 1974. The planes were cool, as was the enormous carrier itself (though, I admit that I felt a bit claustrophobic in the bridge). I was especially intrigued by the bunk art – the doodles and drawings that the soldiers made on their bunks - personal expressions of the soldiers who called it home.
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