Homey-moon

Dan and I got back to NYC the evening after the wedding.  We opted not to do the traditional exotic vacation for a honeymoon and chose instead to stay closer to home.  So we called it a homey-moon!

After everything we'd crammed into August, we were exhausted so we spent the first two days of our homey-moon unpacking and getting acquainted with the apartment as our new "together" home.  See the apartment tour here.

The homey-moon gave us the perfect opportunity to get the summer we wanted packed into one week. Way back at the beginning of June we put together a summer bucket list with a few things we wanted to do during the sunshine months.  Well, we didn't get far at all on those goals due to all the wedding planning and apartment moving.  We literally had two things checked-off at the end of August.  So, we gave ourselves an extension and permission to edit the list in order to accomplish things. 

We were really fortunate to have fantastic weather for our homey-moon week - all the summer weather we never had.   On Labor Day we went to Brooklyn Bridge Park and had a mini picnic under the shade of a tree.  We ate crunchers, played Frisbee, and just relaxed.  Knocked that one off the list.

The following day our initial plan was to go to the Bronx Zoo but we got a late start and weren't really thrilled about how long the subway ride would be and how it would cut into the visiting time.  So we edited our plans and decided to go to Prospect Park in Brooklyn instead.  

We rented bikes from a cute little shop and rode around the park several times.  It was HOT and there was a big hill but overall it was nice.  The heat kept away any crowds and at times if felt like we were the only ones there.  

After our ride we went to the Prospect Park Zoo.

Now, if I were judging zoos there would be no comparison between the Bronx Zoo and the Prospect Park "zoo."  The Bronx is a real zoo...it has elephants and giraffes.  I would not consider Prospect  a real zoo.  It was super small and had all small animals and an entire exhibit for barn animals.  Yes...cows and sheep.  Not a zoo.  But it was cute and quaint and if it weren't for the seal exhibit I wouldn't have liked it much at all.  I needed me some elephants.

After the zoo and lunch at Wendy's we headed home to rest.  Heat is exhausting but we weren't complaining  because it was the summer weather we had missed so desperately and the opportunity to do summer things even though it was the beginning of September.

That night we did laundry and started getting things packed for our trip to Cape May the next day!!