The Reality - Day 2

We started with homemade Sunday brunch. Scrambled eggs with parmesean cheese, rosemary breakfast potatoes and my blueberry oat scones. Iced coffee for me and iced tea with fresh mint for Geoff. He deemed it better than our usual brunch at Quaint (no offense to them), so score one for me.


Then I made some whole wheat pizza dough and left it to rise


We did a bit of work, called a photographer we needed to get in touch with and tied up some loose ends. Then we hopped in the car and headed into the city for a Mini-Adventure at The Highline.


For those of you who are unfamiliar, the Highline is a park that has been built on an elvated train track on the West Side (currently between 14th & 23rd Streets - though that's only phase 1 of 3 - it will eventually extend to 34th Street). Starting in the mid 1800s, freight trains ran on street level delivering milk, meat, produce and a variety of other products. There were so many accidents with street traffic that 10th Avenue became known as Death Avenue. So they built an elevated train that could make deliveries to second story loading docks and kept the freight trains off the streets. The last train ran on the Highline in the 1980s and when it was in danger of being torn down in the late '90s, community activists lobbied to preserve it and it ended up being turned into a really really cool park space that pays tribute to its history. (Speaking of the history, you can read more about it on here....it's pretty cool.)


(cool bridge between buildings)


There are all these cool sections...like this viewing box, where people can just sit and watch the world go by on the street below.



At one point you walk under this cool steel bridge that's holding up a building (I think) and has these amazing windows...


There are cool different kinds of sitting areas, including these lounge chairs that actually are built on the tracks and are locked in place, even though they are on wheels.



The landscaping is fantastic....again, paying tribute to keeping it as natural as possible, it was created to mimic the things that were growing there naturally when they started the project.


And it is SUPER popular and crowded on a Sunday, FYI. Best to go on a weekday. But when it's a family like this, I don't mind...



We left the Highline when I got too hot and had a mini-meltdown. We all know that I shouldn't be allowed to get hot, hungry or tired, so we had to abort mission and take me home. I felt much better once I was home, away from crowds and in the AC, and also once I started making pizza for dinner.



It was really REALLY good. Pizza, wine and a few episodes of Pillars of the Earth was a perfect end to my super fun weekend. *sigh* Who knew weekends could be so fun?