Father's Day

Had a chance to go in to NYC to visit Lauren on Father's Day. She has an apartment now, up near Columbia. It is a much nicer part of town than I used to think. So we have been dragging over stuff from her room at home to the new place. No exception on Father's Day. A vanload of stuff came over with me. Furniture, clothes, shoes, etc., it did'nt seem too much like a holiday carting all that crap.

Anyway, once we were done unloading we drove downtown to look for parking so we could go to the International Day Festival. That was a pain, parking is terrible down around 50th Street or so. After a half hour we got to park and go see the festival. This is mainly an excuse to have a bunch of booths to sell stuff, accompanied by mostly Italian food stands. Every couple of blocks there is a bit of strangeness, but not too often. It was a hot summer day and there were a ton of people out there.

Lots of interesting people watching! This poor guy had about an acre of rugs all spread out for sale. They looked really good. There was a pile in the middle that people could look through, too. One trick he missed, though. There was no cover over the booth!

A little later in the day we were forced under cover when the rain came pouring down. First I was fascinated to see the umbrella sales guy come in under cover, right along with his umbrella and wares. Then, as we passed back by the rug merchant we saw his entire inventory being rolled up wet. What a misery!