Summer fun

I gotta say. Weekends in NYC are a blast. There are so many things to do that it's easy to be overwhelmed by the smorgasbord of activities. 

Two weekends ago, a fellow ESADE alum and native New Yorker MW took the SO and I to an intriguing concept of art and sound: Warm Up at MoMA PS1. Essentially it's a giant dance party held in the courtyard of the MoMA. Very hip. Very not me but very very fun. Thanks to MW for showing us a good time. 

The blue structure was called Wendy. It was a recyclable wind and air thingamajig. It's half modern art and half renewable energy so it was only half useless. 

PS1 is named as such due to the fact that it used to be a high school back in the early 1900s. In the 1970s it was converted into an art exhibition center and in 1997 it became MoMA PS1. 

The courtyard became the huge dance floor and requisite for any dance party is balloons. Lots of balloons. 

Even during Warm Up the museum is still open so we perused the interesting modern art. This piece was to signify the tired repetition of a worker's life. I'm dead serious. 

I don't even remember what this piece was about. It just allowed us to walk on wet dirt. 

The view of the courtyard and Wendy. I love how it's called Wendy and not Windy. 

Some artist painted all the pipes in the boiler room gold. Very Goldfinger-esque. 

The really creepy boiler. Perfect for getting rid of the evidence if you know what I mean. 

One of MW's friends brought this really odd pumpkin mask. I don't know why she brought it but it was quite the hit with the crowd. 

A new bike shop just opened up a block away from our apartment so we've been talking about renting bikes and cruising down the East River Parkway. This Sunday was a beautiful day in NYC so we made today our bike day. 

Our awesome bikes. Mine's the red one. So hot. 

Stopping for a break and admiring the view of the Brooklyn Bridge. 

Right by the Fulton Street Seaport the New Amsterdam Market was in full swing.  

The other day we had this discussion about the ridiculousness of some food descriptions. Things like sun-ripened strawberries (aren't all strawberries sun ripened)...hand picked baguettes (is this to differentiate those baguettes that are picked by robots). So I saw this lady selling fruits and she was taking her sweet ass time hand selecting all the fruit to provide to customers. Hand selected peaches. I waited about 5 minutes for her to hand select those things for the person at the front, got annoyed and left. 

On the way back I got a good shot of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Williamsburg Bridge. I would've Instagram'ed it but I'm not a 20 year old female with chunky black frame glasses so I didn't. 

The East River Parkway and the adjoining areas have tons of space for cyclists and runners so it made going up and down the area very easy. It makes me want to buy a bike and try to cycle further but that actually requires physical exertion so yeah...nah. 

I hope to have more weekend updates for you blog readers. In two weeks we'll be in Vegas and then a weekend in Philly and then a nice 4 day trip to our rental beach house in the Hamptons. Stay tuned.