Sea-glass hunting with friends between Coney Island and Brighton Beach

Amazing how you can hop on a subway in the humid and sticky streets of Manhattan and end up on a boardwalk with the breeze and the seagull squeaking around...
 And amazing what the time and the patience of the Ocean can do!

Brooklyn Summer

Living in Italy (where hey, we do not have fire hydrant!) I always saw this in movies, and comic strips, but never got a chance to try it... until last week, at the magic age of 32.

And... Whoa!
It's quite fun!

An improvised water park right in front of the house...

Feeling thirsty...

"Hey, I got an idea!..."

 "Well, let me show you how you do it..."

I also discovered that it is LEGAL to open a fire hidrant if it has the "sprinkler cap" ... Now the city looks full of opportunity to refresh myself :)

Night Travelling

Yesterday night I rolled and rolled and rolled on the bed.
So many things in my head. A lot of thoughts were chasing each other, there was a good amount of hope... and a pinch of fear.
I dreamed too but I forgot what.
And when I woke up... I was up-side-down.
I traveled on the spot, like an old style clock.
180 degrees in one night.
I got  in the same place, but with a different perspective.

Later today I just remembered this video, that I really love (I love stop motion in general!):



I wander if I flied in our sheets too :)

vacation time!

I got a full week of vacation (next Monday I will be back at school for the Summer Camp) and in these days I:

 - Played turist! Strolled around at museums and parks, walked a lot... and had tons of picnics with Leo!

 - Enjoyed friends! The good thing of being on vacation is that you can catch up with everybody! You get the time to call Italy, you are free to meet your friend at her for lunch break, you can stay up late, see concerts at night and enjoy music... it's like having a day made of 48 hours!?

- Shoot photos and read books... probably too many...

- Got some good gelato, and pizza... and found a great ricotta shop close by!

- Met some new friends... Amazing how beautiful people may stumble in your life in unexpected ways :)
 
- Discovered a mistake in the Dear Birth Mother Letter that we printed and sent to the agency... one month ago! Now we got 200 copies with a repetition in the text. 2 letters already got sent so some possible birth mother, and we will probably have to re-order and re-pay the printing & shipping... (facepalm).
 
 - Wasted Spent time on the "dark side of the internet", watching silly videos and funny pictures, discovering blogs and websites... and this one, that I liked it a lot, even if it's a little bit bittersweet:




And you? What are you doing with your jelly beans?

A jump in the 20' at Governors Island

So here it's how we celebrated our multiple anniversaries:
- Sushi night
- Red Roses surprise
- ... and dance! We went at the Governors Island Jazz Party, surrounded by people that took the dress-up process reeeally seriously!!

 

Our costumes were way less sophisticated:

 

... But we had so much fun dancing and rolling around on the dance floor!

There will be another Jazz party at Governors Island this August... Guess who is going again?!
:-D

Celebration Time!

It's anniversary week!

In the 9th of June, 9 years ago (9 YEARS AGO?! Seriously?!), we met by accident along the street and walked together under a warm summer sky, chatting and laughing. We kept going back and forth from my house to your house (luckily we lived 3 blocks apart, ah!) until dawn arrived and I finally went up to my apartment, feeling exhausted, happy and a little bit sad.
That night we didn't exchanged phone numbers, we didn't tell each other "let's meet again". That night we didn't kiss, we didn't even hug... But that night is when it started, and we both felt it.
(The next day you found my phone number on the white pages... I suppose walking each other back and forth in front of our houses helped a little with the research... and invited me to see a terrible movie, but that's another story!)

On the 11th of June, 6 years ago, we got married in our city council. I was too nervous, I don't remember the ceremony, but I do remember the party. We celebrated with a picnic in the park, our friends brought guitars and music, my dad pulled out from the canteen a flask of his home-made red Barbera wine, your family baked a dozen of cakes shaped like harts... and we danced barefoot in the grass.
It definitely wasn't the Italian"traditional wedding celebration"... but still, I wouldn't change a thing :)

And I love  that, to celebrate our anniversary, this weekend we will go dancing barefoot in the grass again.
May we keep dancing, mì amor!

Wednesday = Brooklyn Botanical Garden!

For this summer, Wednesday is officially our "picnic night".

So today we grabbed our pasta, packed our chocolate (you can't have a picnic without chocolate, it would be terribly unprofessional!) and caught a spot to listen to some free live music, smell some amazing beautiful roses... and get a pic at some original/silly/weird... hats!

It looked like a party at the Mad Hatter Garden!

 The children created their personal hats, and they held a little parade around the cherry esplanade...

 Some just created some amazing pieces of wearable art.

 Roses and hats... It was like jumping right into a page of Alice in Wonderland...
We loove the Brooklyn Botanical Garden!!