Life as normal

After the mini excitement of last weekend's occurances, I'm happy to report that it's life as normal again. Just about to fall asleep after a blissful weekend of relaxing at home, having friends over for a braai (barbecue as we're having to call it these days), cleaning the house, reading, some shopping and mostly, enjoying each other's company. Today was the Gay Pride Festival in New York and we had all the good intentions in place last night to go see this big parade down 5th Avenue. This morning at 11 (the parade started at noon...) I was dragging John off to breakfast in the vicinity of the starting point and somehow we totally missed the parade... We did have an awesome breakfast at Le Pain Quotidien and then ventured off to the park (Central Park, that is) for the most awesome summer's day in a long time. We were sailing a yacht on the pond (okay, a small radio-remote-controlled one), trying to dodge the baby ducklings who were scrambling about between the 30-odd other motorized yachts. Then we ventured off to the big lawn (Sheep's Meadow) - melting ice lolly in-hand - for an afternoon of suntanning and relaxing (along with about 3000 other New Yorkers in various stages of sunburnt/tanned-ness. After a couple of hours, we walked down from 72nd street to where we stay on 39th, down 5th Avenue - FINALLY passing Tiffany's. (This may just have to be named my favourite store in New York yet!). Quick Starbucks mocha-frappuchino (light, naturally) on the way, a mini shop at Gap and then off to the market in Grand Central Station to buy some fresh bread, cheese and chorizo sausage for another BBQ this evening. Life's good. (And it's pretty good, actually!)