Moving and the 4th
It's been a while since I posted last so I'll try to recap a little. On Friday Steph and I moved to our new apartment. It's in a slightly less-nice neighborhood, really close to the theatre district. It's a nice apartment, two bedrooms a good size kitchen (except for counter space) and a small living room. The bathroom is incredibly small. As strange as it is to take a picture of the bathroom I'm going to have to so that you can see how small it is. I'll probably take pictures in the next day or two and then Ill post them.
Saturday I did my normal thing of reading in Central Park for a couple of hours. It is so nice to sit out in the sun and be in some green for a while. I read some more of Spong's Why Christianity Must Change or Die. I know the title sounds really shocking, but it is actually a well thought out book that is really making sense to me. It's all about how to still be a Christian when your rational mind tells you that many of the doctrines of the Church don't make sense. I also read some of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn which is a really good book.
Sunday I went and walked for a while down Broadway checking out the stores and theatres. I stopped in the Toys R Us store just for fun. It was crazy with tons of people and some really cool toys. Times Square is of course full of people and right now construction. The Ticket Booth has been moved because they are working right where is normally is. I partly went to find where it moved to since I'm planning on seeing Rent in a couple of weekends. I actually found the other location on Tuesday without meaning to.
Monday I just lazed around and pretty much vegged all day. Yeah for summer. Yesterday for the 4th I went down to Water St where they had a small festival. Kind of an art fair combined with the food part of Grand Rapids Festival. It was really nice. Then later I went to the fireworks. They block off about 60 blocks or so of FDR Dr and everyone goes and brings chairs and spreads out blankets and waits for the fireworks. I went online and found a website that said the best place to be was on the FDR at 34th St and that's where I ended up which is lucky since the police only let people fill in certain sections at a time so there's no guarantee that you can sit where you want. I had to get there about 2 hours before the fireworks started.
I read a book and listened to my ipod until it got too dark. We did have some entertainment before the fireworks started. There was a man who came through the crowd singing patriotic songs alternating with "Amazing Grace" every so often. I though it was amazing how many people he got to sing along with him. Then the fireworks started and the website was right. 34th St is the best place. There were three barges with fireworks on them and the middle one was almost directly in front of me. They were really good. I can't tell you how long they lasted because I forgot to check the time, but they lasted a long time. There were smilely faces and cube fireworks that I have never seen before. They were really good.
Well I'm sure this is plenty long enough so I'll stop here. I'll put some picture up and some random thoughts I've been having pretty soon.
Saturday I did my normal thing of reading in Central Park for a couple of hours. It is so nice to sit out in the sun and be in some green for a while. I read some more of Spong's Why Christianity Must Change or Die. I know the title sounds really shocking, but it is actually a well thought out book that is really making sense to me. It's all about how to still be a Christian when your rational mind tells you that many of the doctrines of the Church don't make sense. I also read some of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn which is a really good book.
Sunday I went and walked for a while down Broadway checking out the stores and theatres. I stopped in the Toys R Us store just for fun. It was crazy with tons of people and some really cool toys. Times Square is of course full of people and right now construction. The Ticket Booth has been moved because they are working right where is normally is. I partly went to find where it moved to since I'm planning on seeing Rent in a couple of weekends. I actually found the other location on Tuesday without meaning to.
Monday I just lazed around and pretty much vegged all day. Yeah for summer. Yesterday for the 4th I went down to Water St where they had a small festival. Kind of an art fair combined with the food part of Grand Rapids Festival. It was really nice. Then later I went to the fireworks. They block off about 60 blocks or so of FDR Dr and everyone goes and brings chairs and spreads out blankets and waits for the fireworks. I went online and found a website that said the best place to be was on the FDR at 34th St and that's where I ended up which is lucky since the police only let people fill in certain sections at a time so there's no guarantee that you can sit where you want. I had to get there about 2 hours before the fireworks started.
I read a book and listened to my ipod until it got too dark. We did have some entertainment before the fireworks started. There was a man who came through the crowd singing patriotic songs alternating with "Amazing Grace" every so often. I though it was amazing how many people he got to sing along with him. Then the fireworks started and the website was right. 34th St is the best place. There were three barges with fireworks on them and the middle one was almost directly in front of me. They were really good. I can't tell you how long they lasted because I forgot to check the time, but they lasted a long time. There were smilely faces and cube fireworks that I have never seen before. They were really good.
Well I'm sure this is plenty long enough so I'll stop here. I'll put some picture up and some random thoughts I've been having pretty soon.
posted by Anne @ 6:33 PM
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