Away From the Giraffes and Into the World

Roommate's friend, Seb, who I guess is also my friend now (we're kind of mean to him so we would never ever acknowledge that, heh), was on this side of the Atlantic this week so we all went to the city for Saturday afternoon. Hopped around from Grand Central down Madison Ave. through Sony Wonder Technology Lab (disappointing and a bit tacky for kids our age) and on down to a little Belgian restaurant for lunch (Delicious! Superb! Many, many glistening adjectives! We learned that Vol au Vont means "Fly(ing) with the Wind," for the flightless chicken and the magical flying pig in the dish, I imagine, and that Tin Tin is pronounced by French speakers as "Ton Ton"; Tin Tin himself uses weird onomatopoeia like "Tchouk Tchouk" and "Pan Pan" - instead of Pow! I guess?) then meandered toward our supposed destinations of Battery Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Dumbo in Brooklyn (plus another little park there), but just ended up at the riverfront in the freezing, super-windy cold and headed back to Grand Central. We never even stepped down to the subway this time, which was rather weird, since Sebastian insisted on the cleanliness of cabs (like I said - weird). Great day, all in all! But definitely chilly, chilly, chilly.

From the park at the end of our sojourn, in the view across the river, between the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, there were these weird crane-like contraptions you'd expect to see at an oil-drilling operation or in the electrical webbery of a power plant, and roommate and I joked to each other about our common observation that they looked like giraffes. At one point, in a day full of beautiful, Blip-worthy photos, I took one where this stately pillar blocked out the giraffes. That's right. Go away, giraffes!

Got home and saw the mega moon (technical term: Super Perigee Moon), but by then it didn't look so special or magnificent, as the best time to see it had been around sun-down. Guess I'll have to wait another twenty years. Darn. I still took something like a million HDR shots to document it. *Shrug*

More later (maybe)!