We headed down to Brooklyn today, since we haven’t really spent any time there except for Friday when we did the Brooklyn Bridge and had Jessie and Billy’s wedding. Unfortunately, the Brooklyn Museum and the New York Transit Museum were both closed due to it being Columbus day. (I’m adding these to the list for the next time we’re here.)
We headed down to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It looked to be about 3x the size of the Queens Botanic Garden, by looking at the map. We covered so much area with it today, because there is a lot of intertwining paths that show many different plants. As with Queens, I’m sure there is a lot more color to be seen in the spring and summer time.
I’m sorry. Have I not shown you enough animal pictures today? That’s fine. We went to the Prospect Park Zoo next, and I took plenty of pictures there. [Yes, I did fail miserably with these by not noting the individual species’ names.]
Bottom: (L) An adorable winter kitty looking distantly into the future. (C) A cuddly pile of mongooses, you ask? Why, yes, yes it is. (R) Fennec Fox. Those ears!
Middle: (L) Peacocks who couldn’t be bothered to put on a show for us humans, just because no peahens were around to show off for. (R) Sir Grumps-A-Lot (on the right), and his pal Sir-Grumps-A-Little-Less (on the left), who decided to jump into the spotlight with his buddy for me.
Bottom: (L) A toucan of sorts, cheesin’ for the camera. (C) The poor turtle in Mr. Can’s room who had the unluckiness of being pooped on. (R) A dingo! Pretty sure this is the first time I’ve ever seen one (unless Sam and Luke count).
We headed to Greenacre Park next, jumping on a train to go from Brooklyn back over to Manhattan.
We still had a while before we would be back at the hotel for leftovers, and skipped lunch today. We found a hole-in-the-wall Indian place on the other side of the block from Greenacre called Kati Roll. We got a chicken tikka roll, and it was delicious. 10/10, would eat again.
We happened to be notified by the multiple street signs outside of their respective restaurants that it was happy hour. We went a few doors down from Kati Roll to another hole-in-the-wall place called Vote 4 Pedro (yes, I’m serious). We grabbed a couple of margaritas and some chips and salsa. We also noticed that about half of the menu items had names referencing Napoleon Dynamite. The music was all over the place, but it was good stuff, so it worked out. For example: Frank Sinatra → Murray Head → Neil Diamond → Smash Mouth → Elton John → All-American Rejects.
Next on the list was The High Line. This is about 1.5 miles of elevated train tracks that was converted to a multi-use park. The entire pathway is walkable, with plants all along it, and plenty of seating areas. Along the route are many art exhibits as well.
Well, with sore feet and tired eyes, we headed back to the hotel for the last night. We head out early tomorrow, so unless something super awesome and crazy happens, this is the last blog entry for this trip.
We’ve found that we enjoy the narratives we can do with the blogs, while picking our favorite pictures to accompany them. It’s also a bit easier to recall our trip when we look back later. If you’ve made it this far with us, thanks for tagging along!
Until next time…this is AdventurePuppies signing off.