#35 - An exercise in futility - July 7, 2012

Today we slept late and hung around for a while.  I stepped out to get groceries and pick up Aria's dress from the dry cleaner.  We left Aki's place at 3:30 or so and took the train to the Transportation Museum.  We got there at 4:36.  It closed at 5.  We decided against going inside.

So we went to Wendy's instead and got Frostys.  Then we had to figure out what to do with out evening.  As we wandered to a train station, I saw the Manhattan Bridge in the distance.  I thought it was the Brooklyn Bridge, and convinced the family to go a little closer.  So we got on the pedestrian walkway and walked for a bit.  It was hot.  And about everybody was tired.  So after we turned the corner and could actually see the Brooklyn Bridge, we turned around.  There is a park with a ground fountain at the High Street station, so we went there and the kids got soaking wet and had a ball.  We got them out of the water eventually and gave them about half an hour to dry before heading home.

We got to Astoria-Ditmars about 8, and went to dinner at Los Amigos again.

Then home to sleep.  It was not a very eventful day.  But I'm very glad that we went to a park.  The kids were just itching to run for a while, and it was very nice to see them get to do that.