Pier 6 ~ Brooklyn NY.
I love finding new places around the city that we love. Today, we ventured down to Pier 6 in Brooklyn - it's an area that they have slowly been converting, and now there are 6 Piers dedicated to being part of the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Pier 6 opened last summer, and I heard rave reviews about the space and it had a water feature -- -which we love water features! --- so I knew that we needed to try it out.
It has been a little tricky to actually get to many of these places to try out their water features. We have left the previous 2 summers right when school gets out and then when we return there is a frenzy to get ready for back to school. This year is busier than ever - PTA could easily consume my life, and some days there has been a lot going on. Tuesday for example - we finally got out of the apartment around 6pm. That was a long day.
I knew that the kids deserved a break & to help me stick to the plan of getting out on an adventure - I signed up to host a playgroup for today in our ward. It turned out that there were only 4 of us that showed up...but those kiddos played, and played to their hearts content.
And we now have a new favorite place to go!
Thankfully one of the other moms sent me all the pictures from today, because I did not take my camera out once! I actually had to leave early from the playdate - I had a meeting back at school with The Trio - I finally found a nickname that works for our Principal, Assistant Principal and Test Administrator - which I think she has another official title, but I can't remember what it is...and since it is obviously so long to type out all their titles I realized today I shall refer to them as 'The Trio'. So much easier! The amazing thing, is that my friends offered to let the kiddos stay with them, and then they would bring them back to the island. Seriously - that is a wonderful offer and I was a little nervous about leaving them in a place crawling with children...but then I realized they would be bored if I took them back to the meeting....because in meetings you can't be as goofy as one can be walking from the park to get ice cream!!!
The crew - not sure how she got this group picture - but look how fun! I'm at the meeting - so these are the amazing moms that are watching my kids...and the crew of kids. Madeleine was in heaven that another girl showed up --- whew!
I had thrown out the idea of stopping at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory - however there was another amazing ice cream shop they walked to where everyone got a nice cold treat. What a perfect day! The sun was out - it as warm.hot - but not too hot. And to spend with friends --- I think we need to balance life with a few more of these outings!
Thanks Brooklyn.....we'll be back for another day in your area!
p.s. remember how I was excited to come back to consistent Internet access? That will happen NEXT week. The past 2 weeks we have been home, I have to sit in a chair and be connected to the router - wireless is a thing that is not working at our place for whatever reason.
I don't know who is more excited ---- me for wireless internet again, or Bryson for the Cable T.V. that he decided to sign up for --- because after all, why just get wireless internet when you can get the BYU Football games for fall season?!
Hopefully when wireless is on, and once our big school supply fundraiser is over and the kids are all in school full time (yes - all 3! hooray!) --- I'll be back to posting more regularly. There is still summer to post about you know! :)
I love finding new places around the city that we love. Today, we ventured down to Pier 6 in Brooklyn - it's an area that they have slowly been converting, and now there are 6 Piers dedicated to being part of the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Pier 6 opened last summer, and I heard rave reviews about the space and it had a water feature -- -which we love water features! --- so I knew that we needed to try it out.
It has been a little tricky to actually get to many of these places to try out their water features. We have left the previous 2 summers right when school gets out and then when we return there is a frenzy to get ready for back to school. This year is busier than ever - PTA could easily consume my life, and some days there has been a lot going on. Tuesday for example - we finally got out of the apartment around 6pm. That was a long day.
I knew that the kids deserved a break & to help me stick to the plan of getting out on an adventure - I signed up to host a playgroup for today in our ward. It turned out that there were only 4 of us that showed up...but those kiddos played, and played to their hearts content.
And we now have a new favorite place to go!
Thankfully one of the other moms sent me all the pictures from today, because I did not take my camera out once! I actually had to leave early from the playdate - I had a meeting back at school with The Trio - I finally found a nickname that works for our Principal, Assistant Principal and Test Administrator - which I think she has another official title, but I can't remember what it is...and since it is obviously so long to type out all their titles I realized today I shall refer to them as 'The Trio'. So much easier! The amazing thing, is that my friends offered to let the kiddos stay with them, and then they would bring them back to the island. Seriously - that is a wonderful offer and I was a little nervous about leaving them in a place crawling with children...but then I realized they would be bored if I took them back to the meeting....because in meetings you can't be as goofy as one can be walking from the park to get ice cream!!!
The crew - not sure how she got this group picture - but look how fun! I'm at the meeting - so these are the amazing moms that are watching my kids...and the crew of kids. Madeleine was in heaven that another girl showed up --- whew!
I had thrown out the idea of stopping at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory - however there was another amazing ice cream shop they walked to where everyone got a nice cold treat. What a perfect day! The sun was out - it as warm.hot - but not too hot. And to spend with friends --- I think we need to balance life with a few more of these outings!
Thanks Brooklyn.....we'll be back for another day in your area!
p.s. remember how I was excited to come back to consistent Internet access? That will happen NEXT week. The past 2 weeks we have been home, I have to sit in a chair and be connected to the router - wireless is a thing that is not working at our place for whatever reason.
I don't know who is more excited ---- me for wireless internet again, or Bryson for the Cable T.V. that he decided to sign up for --- because after all, why just get wireless internet when you can get the BYU Football games for fall season?!
Hopefully when wireless is on, and once our big school supply fundraiser is over and the kids are all in school full time (yes - all 3! hooray!) --- I'll be back to posting more regularly. There is still summer to post about you know! :)
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