On Friday, we took the Water Taxi to Governor's Island, just to check out all the recent hoopla about the fun, free events out there. It was a nicely cool and overcast morning (which turned into our current hideous sauna-type weather within a few hours), and Jack loved the breezy boat ride. Aidan napped during the ride over, but woke up as we walked around in search of food. The scenery was great -- quiet, leafy isolation was a soothing change -- and all the spookily empty houses/barracks/buildings had us complaining again about the price of NYC real estate (okay, besides the fact that there is no potable water on the island, exactly *why* can't anyone live there?) The boys had lots of fun manning the front of the bike, after a brief period of adjusting to helmet-wearing. We biked the perimeter of the island, had some ice cream & a turn on the playground swings, and then it was back to the boat and back into the simmering heat of Brooklyn.
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