The Great Escape

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What's the best thing about the burbs?
Finding out that you have two lovely neighbors who are also in need of a city fix!

The plan was hatched at the bus stop late last week.
My friend walked up and instead of engaging in the usual bus stop banter just blurted out "I don't know about everybody else but I seriously need to go to the city. I need to walk, I need to see people, I need it." I couldn't believe it, it's as though she'd read my thoughts. It's been a few weeks since I've been and it was starting to show. We encouraged our fun and world travelled neighbor that made three. Add my toddler and we had team of four adventurers. We set a date and made a plan.

Today was the day we made our great escape.
This morning at 8:50AM we put our kids on the school bus.
Thanks to hubbie kindly giving us a lift we made it to the train station by 8:55 and by 8:58 the four of us were on our way to the city.
It was bliss.
We jammed ourselves into a rush hour subway and headed down to Tribeca. As soon as we came of the subway my friend said "wow, just smell the air, it's great."
We had breakfast as Bouley.
We strolled up Broadway.
Shopped of course.
Walked of course.
And topped it off with a quick lunch at Balthazar.
The freedom we all felt of just being able to get up and go was wonderful. Of course I also felt homesick but I'm happy with whatever city fix comes my way. It was just wonderful to share the city with my daughters and my new friends.

At 2:08PM we hopped on the train back to the suburbs. As we were walking down our street, our sweet children were getting off the school bus. They were happy, we were happy. What more can you ask for?
I can't wait for our next escape.

Comments

  1. AnonymousMarch 9, 2010 at 9:37 PM

    So glad to hear you had your City fix done !!!! Today was just the perfect day to walk around and feel the energy of the spring taking over the streets ....
    Hope to see you on your next trip.....
    Barbee

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