Our Bangladeshi taxi driver regales us with the virtues of living in Jamaica, Queens but I'm drifting off, having awoken at 5 am after staying up too late helping to finish preparations for our house exchange.
We arrive in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Patty is still at work, so after we get settled in, we all head out with Drew and Fiona. Fiona (Fia) is four years old now, cute, precocious. As we walk through the Brooklyn streets, she's trying to imitate Griffin, who is parkouring the street lamps and various sidewalk obstacles. This involves us occasionally lifting her up onto and taking her down off of things.
After a stop at Grumpy Coffee, we grab a train to to the DUMBO area of Brooklyn, Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass.
We walk down to the East River, Brooklyn Bridge Park which is beneath the Brooklyn Bridge (as in, "If you believe that...") where Rowan rides the carousel with Fia.
Patty meets us there, and we all get burritos at a nearby food truck. After food in the park, we grab cabs to Van Leeuwen Ice Cream.
There, the great, young Brooklynite ice cream baristas - the one with the long green hair and the other with the cap and Fidel Castro beard are playing one of my favorite albums of all time, The Kinks "Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround," on an actual turntable. They also serve us delicious ice cream.
Back at their apartment, we lay around talking with Drew and Patty late into the night. Actually, we do this every night during our visit. We can't help it.
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