The original plan for our trip was to stay just outside of New York City, but when we met this couple from Brooklyn in Charleston we decided to change our plans. They told us about Park Slope (an up and coming section of Brooklyn) and we booked a hotel. We didn't do much the first night because we got there kind of late, but the next morning we explored.
I got some recommendations from Brandi (Brooklyn is her "Mecca") and she told me to check out Prospect Park. This park is like a mini Central Park and is just as beautiful. There were people jogging, babies running around the playground, people walking their dogs. It was a happening place for a Monday afternoon. Just walking around Brooklyn, past the brownstones and all the people with places to be is exciting. There's just an energy about certain cities that you can feel and Brooklyn is buzzing. Em and I were chatting about places we have visited that we would move to and she pegged me for a Brooklynite. I totally, one hundred percent agree. I even told Brandi that when (and I mean when) she moves to Brooklyn, I'm living with her during my summers off.
So after Brooklyn, we took off for Boston. Both of us had been to Boston, but only Em had been fortunate enough to be of legal drinking age on her last trip so I was particularly excited to see what the nightlife was like. Side note, Boston was hands down the most expensive city to find a hotel in so we ended up staying right near the airport and taking the T into downtown.
Because we were in town on a Monday, not too much was happening, but we did manage to find a bar with live music. Turns out the music was for a "wedding showcase" where they have a bunch of wedding bands play shortened versions of songs and couples pick their favorite. We met this woman from Kentucky named Nancy who introduced herself to me after grabbing my little yellow purse and yelling, "I LOVE YOUR BAG!" She was a hoot. She has met Mike Tyson (apparently he is very short in person) and she paid an absurd amount of money to buy her daughter a hat for her Kentucky Derby themed formal. She was also very disappointed that we did not visit Kentucky and we told her we'd stop in for the Derby one of these days. Once the wedding showcase was over, Em and I ventured off and were stopped by a man who told us he was going to play guitar in the bar in a minute and that we should go in and listen to him. We had nothing else to do and so we ordered two Blue Moon's and caught the end of the Stanley Cup. This big group of people came in just before the end and we ended up chatting with them (nobody can resist our California charms). Their whole group was made up of grad students who were literally there to mix concrete. It's obviously more complicated than that, but now we can say that if there is some newly developed part of Boston with some fresh concrete, we know the guys who came up with that mix. You can pick your jaw up off the floor now. Em and I eventually made our way back to the hotel to get some sleep before our scheduled massages in the morning. Em has a membership to Massage Envy (feel free to take a minute here to be jealous. It's only natural. Love, Emily) and booked some for the two of us.
Words of advice: if you are going to spend three weeks straight in a car, GET A MASSAGE. Both of us had huge knots in our back. Em's masseuse had to put hot towels on her back to get her muscles to relax and my masseuse worked on one knot for like fifteen minutes (it was not defeated). Regardless, we felt great after and went back to the hotel to head off to Wolfeboro. Stay tuned to hear about our family time and my send off.
-KR
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