Tag: carousel

Today we slept in, and eventually dressed, and went to Central Park.  Via a hipster coffee shop, where we ate bagels.  Then via Grand Central Station again, as I wanted another look.  It was still huge.

 

We walked around all of Central Park.  I’m not kidding, we walked from one end to the other, with various trails and meanderings in between.  We popped out at about 86th ave at about 3pm where we grabbed a bagel for lunch from another good bagel shop, then we were right back into it.    That was all we did all day.  Dale mapped it,  About 12kms.  Unfortunately most of this post is pictures.  Or fortunately, if you like looking at pictures.

We chased squirrels, climbed over rocks, followed pretty trails, and towards the end of the day we came across a whole bunch of people marching and chanting.  In Spanish, I think, and I believe it was some kind of church group.

Some of the statues and stuff we had to wait a while to get a clear picture – at the Alice in Wonderland statue, we had to wait for a couple of kids to get off the statue, just for a moment, so we could get a picture.  They seemed to think everyone wanted some random kids in their pictures.  I appreciate they’re kids, and want to play, but just because I’m an adult now, doesn’t mean I don’t like playing too, doesn’t mean I don’t want to climb on the statue and get a picture.  I’ve felt this in a few places, that the adults have to stand back, while the kids run around and play on stuff and have fun.. why aren’t the adults allowed to do that too?  Just because we’ve grown up, that doesn’t mean we have to sit back and be boring and bored and not climb and explore and blow bubbles and have fun.  I still like tree climbing and flying foxes and dancing around, why shouldn’t I be allowed to do that?

My favourite part was when we were walking down a random trail, and something fell out of the tree beside us.  My first thought was, omg, why is a bird falling out of a tree?!, but it turns out it was two squirrels fighting, who fell maybe 6m, landed on the ground with an audible thump, and then they both jumped up and ran off.  They looked a little stunned.  Silly squirrels!

We rode the carousel – there has been a carousel in the park since 1871, I think the current one is the 4th one in the park, and the longest lasting.  The first was powered by a horse and a mule, walking around under the carousel, out of sight.  The next two were powered by steam, and the current one has been around since 1908.  All the bits are hand carvved.