I don't believe I've mentioned yet that we live in New York City. A fabulous city, yes. In the past five years of marriage, my husband and I have moved 7 times (!) and have lived in a handful of states including Alaska, Idaho, Tennessee and now, New York. We've loved each place for different reasons, but there is definitely an energy and creative pulse that makes this particular city irresistible.
Raising a child here is anything but boring. We moved here when London was only seven months old, so this is really all that she knows. I've been pleasantly surprised by the kid-friendly side of NYC, which boasts a long list of parks and playgrounds, as well as indoor play spaces (we will be checking into those more in the winter and I look forward to sharing them with you!) Yesterday we needed a change of scene from our usual parks, so we headed up to Madison Square Park and shared a lovely morning of play and ice cream from the super popular Shake Shack. (If you haven't been there, you must! And make sure you get in the B line if you are only ordering dessert - much faster!)
Afterward, we wandered around looking for the subway going downtown. Not sure why I had such a hard time finding it. We passed by the Flatiron building, which is something I've always wanted to see ever since I learned about it in one of my interior design classes in college. They had a pretty cool art installation on part of the first floor that we enjoyed studying for a few minutes – it's made out of twist ties, straws, vinyl tape, yarn, cellophane paper, and hair tinsel! What a fun and crazy mix. (Sorry for all of the camera pics. I promise I will be better about lugging my camera around next time!)
We also spotted this bit of good news. You can bet I'll be checking this out soon.
I'm secretly hoping it will look just like this inside:
Image courtesy of Marimekko
And just for fun...I was sort of tickled by an ad campaign from Swatch, which wrapped subway cars in oversized images of their products and logos. There's lots of interesting subway advertising that goes on, but this idea was new to me.
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