Just home from NYC where my best friend from college got married in Central Park at the Conservatory Gardens. It was a simple ceremony with glorious weather.  When I was in school, after spending the summer in the grueling Atlanta heat, it was always such a joy to return to the northeast and a dry, cool September.

After the ceremony and the obligatory pics,  they  arranged for a double decker bus to take us all to Grand Central.   It’s funny – we were all as excited as the tourists who usually do these things.  When you live in a place, you tend not to do the basic touristy things that are around… and even now, when I return to the city, I visit friends, eat all the stuff I can’t get back home, perhaps visit the Met… but having lived here once, actually twice, what sort of stuff am I really going to do?  But with the perfect weather, sitting up top and seeing the familiar buildings go by, it was really cool.  So everyone really enjoyed the ride… then the reception was a Metrazur, it sits on the mezzanine overlooking the grand hall of Grand Central – which is just gorgeous!  It’s great place for drinks after work… watching all the commuters head home in this ballroom of a space.  Everything was really nice.

That night, we all met up again and took the Circle Line from the 42nd Pier. It took us as far as the UN on the East River, then over to the Statue of Liberty – then back up the Hudson. It was a lot of fun doing things we don’t and wouldn’t normally do like the double-decker bus and the Circle Line.

We stayed with friends out in Brooklyn, Prospect Park. Sunday was spent hanging out there and getting the Brooklyn experience. Since I lived, worked & played in Manhattan, Brooklyn is still a mystery to me… it’s all fairly new. So we got the mini-tour… and now I’m completely sold.  I started urging friends in Manhattan who told me at the wedding they were looking to upsize, so I am now convinced Prospect Park and the other areas nearby would be perfect!

So it was nice to see old friends, hang out in the City, experience new areas and do a few new things… My friends kept asking me ‘Don’t you miss the City’ and the answer is yes.  I think my husband was a bit put out by my response since I left New York to get married to him and live in St Simons Island.  But what’s wrong with missing a place that’s been such a major part of your life?

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