Day 364

On Saturday night we decided to go on a Really Long Walk. We started at Rockefeller Plaza where we picked up Gil from work. Then we walked through a street fair on Broadway where we had a dinner of lamb gyro, pad thai, and Twizzlers. Then we walked all the way up Central Park, from the southwest corner to the northeast corner. Then we walked across Central Park and up to 125th street to see our friends who had just moved to Harlem. Then we rode the A train home.

Ok, ok we took a taxi for twelve blocks because we wanted to get to the Conservatory Garden before it closed, but we walked everything else.

The Conservatory Garden in CP was lovely: peaceful and quiet even on one of the most crowded days we've ever seen in the park. We will hit our one full year mark in New York City tomorrow (hooray!) and we had never visited it before (or any of the other sites along Central Park North).


Charlie had to splash in the fountain, of course, as well as every pond, mud puddle, or drainage ditch we passed on the walk. This fountain was a little scary because it was about four feet deep. Luckily, Charlie managed to keep from toppling in.


If you bribe Charlie with popcorn to show you his happy face, this is the face he will give you. Even if a split second before he was writhing on the ground in tantrum-induced agony. He got the wrist watch for his birthday. Marin loves that he wears a watch and a diaper at the same time.

What? Charlie is distracted by the prospect of throwing sticks into a body of water? Weird.


Marin spends long periods of every weekend talking to family members over the phone. This is also a good shot of her new awesome-surprise-gift-from-Gil purse. Call it a one-year in New York anniversary present.