If there’s ever a time to visit your best friend in New York, late July is probably not the best choice. Sometimes life doesn’t give you much of a choice though, and going was much much better than not going!
Besides eating pie from Polish bakeries, we did a lot of walking and even more sweating!
Kyle and his boyfriend recently moved to Williamsburg and so we spent the majority of our time not in Manhattan, hooray!
We found a garden, and bought ourselves some much-needed popsicles.
Kyle granted my top-priority wish of the trip – going to the Strand (the best bookstore ever)!
And because he is a fantastic friend, he granted my second-place wish as well – buying stationary and postcards!
We went to see Ghostbusters with his friends Joseph and JS and got brunch with them as well. Kyle always feeds me so well on these visits.
Last, but not least, Kyle always makes an effort to expose me to new ideas, and with that aim, we wandered into a flash-frozen ice cream store in Greenpoint.
As you can see, I was not convinced that this 30-minute wait for individually-frozen ice cream was worth it (indeed it was not, the ice cream tasted the same as normal).
It was Kyle’s last weekend of captivity in his cast, and we definitely made it a memorable one!
The train ride there and back was gorgeous along the Hudson River, and I was not even a little sad to return to the moderate climate that is Vermont in the summertime!
From Washington to Washington 