Because, at times, Amanda and I blow ourselves away with our ability to plan - we had walked down to the farmer's market in Amanda's neighborhood on Saturday and purchased pears, plums, fresh baked sourdough and cheese to take on a picnic on Sunday. Needless to say, we had an amazing picnic lunch at the Brooklyn Bridge Park on Sunday.
Also, we lucked out because there was an arts festival going on in that section of town that weekend. While the entire event seemed slightly disorganized and it would have been entirely possible to walk though the event and never realize there was anything overarching theme holding everything together - it was still really awesome. I was really happy that they took a really broad view of art and therefore the festival featured a lot of different genres that can be considered art. In the park, there was a dance competition going on and Amanda and I witnessed several teams competiting in that with very moving pieces during our lunch. Just outside the park - not only was there a charade of street performers taking turns on a small stage setup, but there was also a pie tasting contest! And then throughout different shops were different features of art. Amanda and I spent a couple of hours in an amazing bookstore which had featured Brooklyn photography on the walls of store and other than sitting down and reading tons of decorating and cookbooks - we had a great time looking at very artistic pictures of people from Brooklyn.
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