City kid

ARR and I hit the High Line this morning. It was pretty dismal out--cold and cloudy, but Chuckro's been suffering a cold and I wanted to ARR out of the house. They were doing their last family program of the year. Total hit--they started with a solid 45 minutes of storytime with a New York Public Library librarian, followed by multiple crafts. There was a garden cart and a kids' variety show, both of which we skipped. Because the big hit was the building area, where they basically just spread out a giant pile of construction materials and let the kids have at. Finished beams with holes of various sizes and giant plastic nuts and bolts so you could screw them together, plus lots of accessories - buckets and baskets, hooks, pulleys, ropes, wheels, corner pieces. Plus random stuff--tin pots and spoons, river rocks, tool belts, construction hats and goggles, kid sized wheelbarrows. He could have stayed there for hours if I hadn't finally peeled him away to get lunch.

He was full of pep and the weather had suddenly became shockingly gorgeous, and a nap seemed like an unlikely prospect. So instead we went to a picnic up at the Cloisters we were originally planning to skip. I'll let Chuckro tell details of that, I mostly chased ARR. But he was fairly well behaved, given the lack of nap. So he managed to hit two of the more iconic parks in the city in one day.