Saturday at Brooklyn

On Saturday we decided to head to Brooklyn to have a look and see if it is a nice place to live.

We took the subway, which took an hour! During the week though it would likely be only a half hour. We got out of the subway at Park Slope and walked down the Main Street. There were lots of children’s stores, indicating it is a fairly child centred area. We had a yummy lunch at one of the local cafes, where we chatted to an Australian waitress who talked up Brooklyn.

After that we went to Prospect Park, which is Brooklyn’s version of Central Park. It has playgrounds, a big lake, carousel, zoo and much more. We definitely didn’t get to see it all!

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A funky tree!

A funky tree!

Of course we had to check out a playground before Tate’s nap, so we had a play at Vanderbilt Playground. It was quite a popular playground, compared to at least one other that was empty.

Going down the slide all by himself!

Going down the slide all by himself!

Having fun jumping from stool to stool.

Having fun jumping from stool to stool.

After the park we headed over to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. Despite charging admission (unlike in Australia) the place was packed! The botanical gardens boast a children’s garden, cherry blossoms, Japanese gardens, greenhouse and much more.

The cherry blossoms were beautiful to see and a very popular area. We got to Japan too late to see them in bloom, so it was lovely to see them at the gardens.

Gorgeous cherry blossoms!

Gorgeous cherry blossoms!

Tulips appeared to be very popular, both in the botanical gardens and Prospect Park.

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My favourite tulips. Love the interesting colour.

My favourite tulips. Love the interesting colour.

Tate and I enjoying the tulips at the end of the gardens.

Tate and I enjoying the tulips at the end of the gardens.

Will we end up living in Brooklyn? We’ll just have to wait and see……

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3 comments on “Saturday at Brooklyn

  1. Gorgeous shot of you and Tate with the tulips. For some reason though it appears upside down in the post – but right way up when I click on it. Ah, the internet… so many weird bugs!
    Brooklyn looks like a nice place to live and I’m sure the commute for Richard would be much faster during peak times.

    • Silly Internet. I think it’s done that before to one of the photos.

      I’d certainly hope the commute is quicker during peak times! In saying that, Richard would still ideally only like a 15 or 20 minute commute.