Brooklyn Bust

Scott took the week of Memorial Day off so we decided to do a little stay-cation since we won't be in NYC much longer.  We didn't do as much as we liked due to rainy weather 2 days and another 2 days of super hot/muggy/humid weather but we did knock a few things off our list as well as have 3 date nights!!

It's kinda funny, the more stuff we do and see around NYC the more I feel like we haven't done anything at all.   There is just that much to see and do.

Tuesday we decided to go to Brooklyn and we were excited about spending the day there since we haven't been there yet but the rain fell about 3 hours before it was supposed to so that cut our trip down by quite a bit.  However we did enjoy a ferry ride over to Brooklyn, some yummy pizza for lunch at the famous Grimaldi's (a line started forming 15 minutes in the rain before it opened; I've heard the line can be well over an hour long) followed by some really delicious ice cream at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory before taking the ferry back home.  Did I mention how delicious it was?

We also checked out the restored/renovated carousel; but it's closed on Tuesdays!!  Yeah....should have checked that out before we headed over there.  The DUMBO area (right under the Brooklyn Bridge) was really cute even in the rain so hopefully we'll be able to make another day trip over there when it's nice to explore even more.

Ready for the ferry!

View of NYC in background while on the East River Ferry.

Closed on Tuesdays.

Such a pretty carousel.  I was really hoping the kids could ride.

Hide and seek while waiting in line.

Playing peek a boo with Katie. She thought they were hilarious!

View of the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan.

Really delicious ice cream!!

Yummy. Luckily I was able to steal a few bites when they weren't looking.