Any Given Sunday

This is why we love this city--on any given Sunday you can wander into Central Park and find a little bit of everything...

We had bagels and coffee under a tree with hundreds of other sunbathers and families in Sheep's Meadow

We walked over to The Boat House and rented a boat. We rowed around The Lake while passing gondolas and listening to someone play music at Bethesda Fountain.

We traversed the park over to the boat pond by the Alice and Wonderland statue and "Dog Hill" (as Mom G affectionately remembers it)

Then we were suddenly caught in a traffic jam of Israeli flags and festive music--the 60th Birthday parade for Israel was crossing before us on 5th Ave. We were crammed in so tightly that a Jewish woman even joked, "Let my people go!" while we were all waiting to cross the street!

After a jaunt up Madison Ave, we went to church on 68th Street at Hunter College where we reconnected with friends we haven't seen in months.

After church, we headed west back across the park. We passed the "roller skating crowd" who is there, rain or shine, skate-dancing to their favorite disco beats like it's 1973. The Swirling Center of the Universe.

We watched the sun go down behind Columbus Circle and the magnificent buildings on Central Park West while we walked barefooted through the cool, squishy grass in Sheep's Meadow. Ah, back home and just in time for soup dumplings at China Fun on Columbus Ave.... We love New York!

Little known facts about Central Park:
- first place Matt held Teri's hand
- first place Matt and Teri had a "date" picnic
- Matt and Teri have been running the same loop around the reservoir in the park for three years
- Matt proposed to Teri in Central Park on April Fool's Day 2006