Prospect Park

Today Kunji and I met her friends Michael and Helene at a great brunch cafe called Cheryl's Global Soul on Underhill Street near Prospect Park. Grand Army Plaza and the Brooklyn Public Library were around the corner and really impressive. It was like the WPA and New Deal coming to life.

Helene is from Denmark and has a fascination with both Berlin (where she spent some time in the 80s) and Portland (to which she has never been). Naturally we got along great. Plus they've got a very cute little blonde boy named Turner. She was speaking Danish on and off through the day and it sounded like Swedish-German. Very odd.

After brunch we met Alice, Boden, Manny and Emily for a walk to a playground in the middle of Prospect Park. It was a play date for the kids, but also for the adults. We definitely outnumbered the babies and could've taken them down easily. Instead we let them play peacefully with sandboxes and slides. What a nice group of fogies we are.

At one point we were cowering under a play structure to stay out of the rain when this baby pushed right by me to the slide. Ah, New Yorkers. I guess they are born that way.

It was nice to see Boden and Kunji hanging out. Glad that we could get together as a family here.
Later we went with Michael and Helene to a bar called Commonwealth on 5th Ave. & 12th St. It had been raining all day, but luckily their back patio had a huge umbrella. When the downpour started again we were protected.

Kunji and I finished up the night with grocery shopping trip to get ingredients for the Potato Leek Soup that I really like to make. Normally you wouldn't really want that in the summer, but it's such bizarre weather that it was perfect. The kitchen in her apartment is really cozy and the soup turned out delicioussss.

Now I'm blogging, or finished blogging and Kunji is hand-stamping business cards.

Sweet.

I think tomorrow I'll head into Manhattan for a few hours. First time since the 2004 Republican Convention.

Maybe I'll buy a camera first to spare you the grainy photos.