MetroCard Bike

So on our way home from watching the Central Park fireworks,

we came across the MetroCard bike.

How fun is that?

The last time I saw it was in like 2010, I think.

It's legendary!

Happy 2013!

Jon, Dani, Hetal, and I celebrated the last minutes of 2012

and the first minutes of 2013 in Central Park,

watching the Road Runner's fireworks--like what Jon and I did last year.

The girls were funny--they asked me what they did last year 

(because I have the memory of an elephant and the deductive skills of the Mentalist):

Dani was coming home from working a crazy ER shift at the hospital.

Hetal was in Vermont.

It was pretty cold.

Definitely not fifty degrees out or anything like last year.

(The best purchase I made in all of 2012

was this superwarm white puffy coat.)

This is what we looked like in 2012.

This is what we looked like at the beginning of 2013.

The fireworks seemed like it was set further back this year,

so we walked toward it.

I love this guy.

I also went on Google Hangouts

and tried hanging out with anyone who seemed to be online.

I hung out with Dom and his friends at his apartment for a bit,

then we got disconnected, 

and I hung out with Wee and Chris for a good part 

of the duration of the firework show.

It was fun!

No crazy incidents to report.

Well, actually . . . Hetal did accidentally fall.

It's been the first time since high school that it was the three of us,

and she just dropped.

(She does that.)

But she was wearing my red Keds,

instead of her five-inch-heel stilettos,

so it sort of makes sense.

And the sidewalk was a bit uneven.

This was the first new year's we spent together in like ten years.

It was crazy awesome.

2013!!!

Friday the 13th: Watching the New York Philharmonic at Central Park's Great Lawn

View from the very south of the Great Lawn

Jon and I walked up 

from 53rd Street to 84th Street

to get sushi

before heading to the concert.

It was as hot as a balls.

Jon and his cell phone

We ate our sushi

while listening to the NY Philharmonic.

We sat while it drizzled.

The humidity broke slightly.

Around 9 p.m. there was an intermission.

Masses left.

At about 84th Street

when we entered the Great Lawn we're about

parallel to the bandstand.

I wanted to get a good seat for the fireworks,

lots of open sky,

so we walked down to the edge of the Great Lawn,

at about 75th Street.

I have no idea who goes

to a classical concert to look at the musicians,

but we heard well enough from the back.

My motive for going

And luckily, that was THE BEST spot

to see the fireworks.

Fireworks are hard to take photos of
with a cell phone

The fireworks started at ten and lasted for thirteen minutes.

They were huge and pretty.

One had a star inside a circle.

Fancy!

There's another concert on Monday.

Hopefully, it won't be rained out!