We took the ferry to Governors Island today and spent the afternoon there. It was a gorgeous day. We rented a big quad bicycle, rode around, played. It was such a great day, but it’s a bit hard to explain why it was such fun.
If you don’t know Governors Island, it’s the largest of the three small islands below Manhattan. Ellis Island and Liberty Island (i.e. Statue of Liberty) are the other two. Governors Island was once a Coast Guard installation but no longer and the city finally figured out they should do something with it, so there are free ferries from Manhattan and Brooklyn and they’ve been improving the parks and the food.
The views are pretty great (Statue of Liberty):
They have a small fake beach with good food and drinks:
That’s the new One World Trade growing in the background on the left. But really this picture best sums up the day:
Flying kites on a beautiful day with my girls. Danielle actually said, “my cheeks hurt from smiling so much”.
It really doesn’t get any better.
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