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REALLY.
I decided to go to the Central Park Zoo today. Got a bit of a later start than I should've...
Anyway, by the time we get up to my mom's office, Ana is pretty grubby, so I let her buy Ana a cheap but nice new outfit and buy us lunch. A coworker just gave Ana a new bear, too, so it's a nice start to the day.
And as we're eating lunch, there are a bunch of sparrows and pigeons around (including a dying pigeon with a broken wing, which can really turn you off your lunch...) eating dropped crumbs. Well, I'm not throwing anything down with Ana watching, but I kinda dangle my hand with a bit of pita on the finger. I'm not expecting anything.
And then, this sparrow with white on its beak flutters up and grabs it off my finger. The first time, I felt it more than anything else, like a hard, heavy pinprick. But then he did it again, and again, and I saw it, and it was soooo coool.
Then Ana tried, but she was too high up, and when she went down, even though she stayed *very* still, the sparrows were just not buying it.
Eventually, we get on the train, just in time for Ana to fall asleep. It's naptime, of course! I'd been expecting something like this to happen, but I had thought it might happen a bit later. I lug her to the park and plop her on the grass, begin to read. She naps for a good hour, but she wakes up and refuses to be consoled halfway through her nap. It would've helped if there hadn't been a friendly dog near...
Anyway, we finally get to the zoo around 2:40 - just in time for the three-person children's play. Well, three people and the audience, which, being primarily kids, got to play the plankton. Ana didn't really get into the play until the final applause, but that was all right. The idea of me sitting there with her was more to get the idea of "this is a play" than anything else. And I liked it well enough. Well, it was only ten minutes.
Edit: Before they actually gave the performance, they asked the entire audience to make a pledge. I was expecting an "I won't talk loudly" or something, but no, it went like this:
I promise not to go on stage or backstage or on the side of the stage. And here is the important part: Even grownups.
I've been reading too much c_s, I can just *see* the scenarios which prompted this pledge....
(end edit)
And then it's the bears (Ana goes "rawr" and makes clawygrabby motions) and the penguins (Ana goes "oooh!" and jumps up and down a lot) and the sea lions (Ana goes "raisins" and looks around vaguely at everything *but* the sea lions), and we wandered a lot besides that. (And, let me note, spending $8.75 for a banana, a tiny thing of juice, two bottles of water, and a tiny thing of raisins is even less fun when the kid decides that raisins are for dropping on the ground in lieu of breadcrumbs.)
ANDTHENWESEETHECLOCK.
Oh, you know the one. The one with the dancing animals, and the monkeys hit the bell? Yeah, that one! I used to go there with my dad and Jenn and watch it.
Did you know the song it plays is "sing a song of sixpence"? *grins ebilly*
And the playground, at... um... 67th and 5th, I think? OMGTHATPLAYGROUNDISCOOL.
It's got a veritable sand desert, and a sprinkler with coldcoldcold water, and the coolest slide ever. We go up there, and I'm laden down with bags (bad idea, as it meant I couldn't go down, Ana was trying to climb up by the time I reached her at the bottom) and all these kids are hanging around this slide (and there's a huge throng of kids) clutching at these cardboard boxes so they can go fast.
And it's tall, and it's cool, and it looks like part of the rock, and if you have a box it's FAST.
After Jenn and my mom got there, I kept going up, ostensibly "with Ana". And once somebody gave us some cardboard, both Ana and I really glommed onto that idea. Ana had already gone down several times with cardboard before I did, and I only did because she wanted to sit on "wa-wap". We went down that way once without the cardboard, and I noticed how much it slowed me down, so I figured that cardboard + ana = not too fast, right?
Hah. Haha. Hahahaha! OMG! I went down, and I was just laughing, and I got to the bottom and stood there and giggled for a good half a minute. It was sooooooooo cool, and I just have to go back.
And then we go home, and we get one of the older trains, where you can stand at the front and look out the window at the track. And with the clock and everything - doing this was such a part of my life growing up, so I do that with Ana. And then she hangs from the bars (with me holding her) a few times. That was a part of our life too, Jenn and me. We'd go with Daddy for skating lessons on Thursdays, and we'd get a car to ourselves, because it was the middle of the day, middle of the week, and we'd just... we'd run back and forth, or hang from the bars, or twirl around on the standybars.
Tomorrow is the last day of the drums, which for little kids is a lot like a concert in the park except with less candles. So I'm doing that, and watching BSG and all later. I hope to meet up with my mom earlier than usual so we can go to the playground and she can watch Ana a little and I can go on the swings.
But I really want to sneak into Central Park one night and have that slide all to myself....
I decided to go to the Central Park Zoo today. Got a bit of a later start than I should've...
Anyway, by the time we get up to my mom's office, Ana is pretty grubby, so I let her buy Ana a cheap but nice new outfit and buy us lunch. A coworker just gave Ana a new bear, too, so it's a nice start to the day.
And as we're eating lunch, there are a bunch of sparrows and pigeons around (including a dying pigeon with a broken wing, which can really turn you off your lunch...) eating dropped crumbs. Well, I'm not throwing anything down with Ana watching, but I kinda dangle my hand with a bit of pita on the finger. I'm not expecting anything.
And then, this sparrow with white on its beak flutters up and grabs it off my finger. The first time, I felt it more than anything else, like a hard, heavy pinprick. But then he did it again, and again, and I saw it, and it was soooo coool.
Then Ana tried, but she was too high up, and when she went down, even though she stayed *very* still, the sparrows were just not buying it.
Eventually, we get on the train, just in time for Ana to fall asleep. It's naptime, of course! I'd been expecting something like this to happen, but I had thought it might happen a bit later. I lug her to the park and plop her on the grass, begin to read. She naps for a good hour, but she wakes up and refuses to be consoled halfway through her nap. It would've helped if there hadn't been a friendly dog near...
Anyway, we finally get to the zoo around 2:40 - just in time for the three-person children's play. Well, three people and the audience, which, being primarily kids, got to play the plankton. Ana didn't really get into the play until the final applause, but that was all right. The idea of me sitting there with her was more to get the idea of "this is a play" than anything else. And I liked it well enough. Well, it was only ten minutes.
Edit: Before they actually gave the performance, they asked the entire audience to make a pledge. I was expecting an "I won't talk loudly" or something, but no, it went like this:
I promise not to go on stage or backstage or on the side of the stage. And here is the important part: Even grownups.
I've been reading too much c_s, I can just *see* the scenarios which prompted this pledge....
(end edit)
And then it's the bears (Ana goes "rawr" and makes clawygrabby motions) and the penguins (Ana goes "oooh!" and jumps up and down a lot) and the sea lions (Ana goes "raisins" and looks around vaguely at everything *but* the sea lions), and we wandered a lot besides that. (And, let me note, spending $8.75 for a banana, a tiny thing of juice, two bottles of water, and a tiny thing of raisins is even less fun when the kid decides that raisins are for dropping on the ground in lieu of breadcrumbs.)
ANDTHENWESEETHECLOCK.
Oh, you know the one. The one with the dancing animals, and the monkeys hit the bell? Yeah, that one! I used to go there with my dad and Jenn and watch it.
Did you know the song it plays is "sing a song of sixpence"? *grins ebilly*
And the playground, at... um... 67th and 5th, I think? OMGTHATPLAYGROUNDISCOOL.
It's got a veritable sand desert, and a sprinkler with coldcoldcold water, and the coolest slide ever. We go up there, and I'm laden down with bags (bad idea, as it meant I couldn't go down, Ana was trying to climb up by the time I reached her at the bottom) and all these kids are hanging around this slide (and there's a huge throng of kids) clutching at these cardboard boxes so they can go fast.
And it's tall, and it's cool, and it looks like part of the rock, and if you have a box it's FAST.
After Jenn and my mom got there, I kept going up, ostensibly "with Ana". And once somebody gave us some cardboard, both Ana and I really glommed onto that idea. Ana had already gone down several times with cardboard before I did, and I only did because she wanted to sit on "wa-wap". We went down that way once without the cardboard, and I noticed how much it slowed me down, so I figured that cardboard + ana = not too fast, right?
Hah. Haha. Hahahaha! OMG! I went down, and I was just laughing, and I got to the bottom and stood there and giggled for a good half a minute. It was sooooooooo cool, and I just have to go back.
And then we go home, and we get one of the older trains, where you can stand at the front and look out the window at the track. And with the clock and everything - doing this was such a part of my life growing up, so I do that with Ana. And then she hangs from the bars (with me holding her) a few times. That was a part of our life too, Jenn and me. We'd go with Daddy for skating lessons on Thursdays, and we'd get a car to ourselves, because it was the middle of the day, middle of the week, and we'd just... we'd run back and forth, or hang from the bars, or twirl around on the standybars.
Tomorrow is the last day of the drums, which for little kids is a lot like a concert in the park except with less candles. So I'm doing that, and watching BSG and all later. I hope to meet up with my mom earlier than usual so we can go to the playground and she can watch Ana a little and I can go on the swings.
But I really want to sneak into Central Park one night and have that slide all to myself....
