Thursday, August 7, 2008

Preparing and Getting Lost

I have a friend coming up from DC this weekend and so I have been busily finding things to do here this weekend.  So we are going to head up to Central Park to see the Strawberry Fields Memorial for John Lennon.  Then we will head back here and see a Bill Withers Tribute Concert at Prospect Park.  On Sunday, we will tour the area and see CeCe Winans at the Brooklyn Tabernacle with the BT Choir.  Pretty full line up.  

But that meant I also needed to clean.  My roommates have devised a cleaning schedule where I am responsible for the first 10 days of the month.  Now remember this, guys are supposed to be messy, which I guess from some points of view, we are.  But girls and their HAIR.  The bathroom is essentially the stopping ground where hair goes to die.  It's amazing.  It's everywhere.  Other than that, the cleaning is a snap.  

Today was the second time I went to run at Prospect Park.  Now last time, I got lost about 2.5 miles in.  The full loop is 3.5 miles.  I wasn't sure if the loop was done, so last time, I took a little detour thinking it would hook me back up to the main loop.  It didn't.  I ended up at an intersection where Ebbett's Field is (old Brooklyn Dodgers Stadium).  I finally found my way back and came across the hill that continues for 1 mile.  

So today, I tried entering in a new spot.  Only this entrance is a mini-park in itself.  So I took the opposite exit and figured I would run around the block and the park would be there.  It isn't.  The Botanical Gardens are.  Then there was the Brooklyn Museum.  Then lo and behold: the Ebbett's Field intersection.  I couldn't believe it.  I had literally come full-circle two days later.  So I got back to the path and again tried something different.  I saw the Center Drive sign and decided to go that way, against traffic.  Which was also a bad idea and the entire drive is uphill.  I finally finished and decided from now on I will just stay on the main path.  

So I leave you with a pic from last night as the sun was setting on the way back to my apartment.  



1 comment:

Jake said...

Thanks for the pictures! It's nice to live vicariously through you, since everyone secretly wants to live in Brooklyn.