Last days of summer

It's the last few days of summer here in NYC. But that means nice weather and time spent outdoors isn't time spent drenched in sweat. We went up to the Bronx Botanical Gardens for a wedding on Saturday.






Then hoofed it all over town on Sunday - a 5 hour marathon of Central Park and The Met. It was all in the hopes of finding a spot to take Anna's week 20 baby bump photo. We did find a cool one in front of an Anish Kapoor sculpture.






We went up to the roof garden at The Met, which we've never done before, and saw this crazy installation - Big Bambu, by Doug and Mike Starn. You have to wait for day-of tickets to go up into the bamboo, and we're intent on getting some of those tickets.

And so it's off into the fall. Halloween is coming up soon and we have to think up a costume idea to rival last year's butter and corn.

Rockaway Beach / Boston

Sean unexpectedly got Thursday and Friday off from work, so we spent Thursday at Rockaway beach, beating the heat (why didn't I do this all summer?), and on Saturday we caught the Bolt bus to Boston. Neither of us had been to Boston in years and we thought it would be a fun way to celebrate our third wedding anniversary. Also, I'm sort of on a scouting mission to find cities besides New York that we can live in. Boston seems like it would be a pleasant enough place to live - it's smaller than NYC, but big enough that I wouldn't get bored. The waterfront is beautiful, and the T (while limited and frustrating) is extensive enough that you could probably get away without driving. But with one of our goals being to move closer to my family on the west coast, it seems kind of pointless to move from NYC to Boston.

We only stayed through Monday, so we didn't to do as much as we would have liked - we ate a ton, went to the ICA, the aquarium, Harvard/Harvard Square, MIT, and Chinatown. And of course, no visit to Boston would be complete with out a walk on the Freedom Trail, and a scavenger hunt for all the folks dressed up in historical costumes.