

Today, I was able to scratch off number 32 on the 36 Before 37 List. MBE said that I needed "some human contact" after my long, four day weekend alone since all my friends were out of town. So, we headed over to the Highline Park in his neighborhood.
It's pretty darn cool. They've made the walkway run between and around the existing rail road tracks, kept a lot of the wild flowers that were growing there naturally and made plenty of seating areas. One of the coolest is shown above. They are these wooden lounge chairs with wheels that rest on the track! Another cool spot is an overlook with stadium bench seating facing a glass wall so that you're sitting over the street watching the traffic.
Besides this, my "human contact" for the weekend was being part of the crowd along the Hudson River here in the 'boken to watch last night's fireworks. I decided to go late and chance getting a spot so I didn't have the best vantage point but I still got to see more of them than I have in previous years.
It was funny...Hoboken was a zoo! The traffic was crazy and there were people still riding around looking for parking, dropping people off and double parking until the end of the show. I left a bit early to head home and there were people running towards the river from Washington Street to see the finale. Crazy. I'm sure just on parking tickets written last night the City Council can now balance the budget.






