So yesterday was another playgroup day! and it came with such great weather:-) It was Noriko-san's turn to host at her place on the Upper West Side and yay the 72nd street sybway station had elevators!! Madison fell asleep on the subway as I expected and planned and we were a bit early for the playdate time so we went past her place one more block to a park so I could sit down and play with my iphone while she slept... After a while I got tired of sitting so we walked two blocks to Fairway Market(One of my favorite grocery store after Whole Foods!) and bought some organic veggies for Madison and Brioche Hamburger Buns to go with Turkey Burgers I will be making on Friday... Okay I wasn't planning on making Turkey burgers on Friday(since we've been having lots of burgers lately...) but I saw this bag of Brioche buns and had to have it!
ノリコさんが作ってくれたロールキャベツと合いそうと思ったブリオッシュロールを食べた後お腹いっぱいでご機嫌の赤ちゃんを連れて早速、外にお散歩をしに行きました。さっきマディソンがお昼寝している時に座っていた所はこの巨大な公園の先っちょだったみたい...さっき全然気づかなかったトンネルを越えるとニュージャージーとニューヨークの境にあるハドソン川に沿って作られた長〜い公園が...ずっと南に向かって歩いて行くと一番下にあるバッテリー公園まで行けちゃうらしい...もちろんそんな遠くまで歩かずノリコさんが話していた人工芝がある所に到着。コンラッド君は来る途中に寝ちゃったからそこには良い子に敷物の上にチョコンと座っておもちゃで遊んでいるセフィちゃんと、見た事の無い人工芝に興奮してハイハイしまくりのマディソン...最初の内は何とか敷物の上だけでって捉まえてたけどその内あきらめて勝手にハイハイし放題にさせちゃいました。たまにだし綺麗そうだったからね！とにかくそこからの景色はやっぱり良かったなー、ニュージャージー側ってあんまり見る機会ないんだけどこの公園はとってもきれいだし穏やかだし毎日来れれば良いのになー。自転車用のレーンが別で離れてあるのもいいなー。
After having yummy Cabbage Roll dish Noriko-san made and the Brioche Rolls I donated, we headed outside with our full and happy babies. It turned out that the area I was sitting at earlier was just the beginning of the park and once you go through a tunnel that I didn't notice before you get to the edge of the west side where across the Hudson River you can see NJ and you can just keep walking on this nice walkway until you get to Battery park... Well we didn't walk that far but made it to a nice patch of fake grass area where we can put down some blankets to sit on and hang out... Conrad fell asleep in his stroller so there was Sephi who was sitting so cute on the blanket and happy to be playing with some toys we brought along and Madison who was very excited about exploring this fake grass she's never seen of and me who finally gave up on trying to keep her within the little blanket square and let her crawl free in the end...:-) They looked clean anyways! Oh it was such a beautiful view, I'm not used to seeing the NJ side but I kind of liked it and the whole area was clean and really relaxing... There is even separate bike lane so they can't bother us walkers/stroller walkers!
マディソンはママのヨガポーズを見過ぎかな？
Madison has been watching me do Yoga too much!?
ノリコさんとセフィちゃん、日よけ対策バッチリ！
Noriko-san and Sephi-chan, taking the rays very seriously!
マディソンがセフィちゃんの目の前に座っていた時にマディソンを引っ張って後ろにガターン！痛くなかったはずだけどビックリしたマディソンの泣きそうな顔...
Madison was sitting in front of Sephi so she got to pull Madison backwards! I don't think it hurt but surprised Madison is about to cry...
それを見たセフィちゃんも泣きそうになっちゃった!!ゴメンネ、マディソン近づき過ぎたね：）Watching Madison about to cry made Sephi do the same! Sorry, Madison was in your way:-)
お日様に十分あたった後はノリコさん宅に戻ってお茶の時間...帰る用意をしている時にサトコさんが家まで歩いて帰るつもりって言うからビックリ!だって４０丁(途方時間１時間半)近くあるよー。夜サトコさんから来たメッセージを見ると出来たって、しかも１時間近くで着いたって。すご〜いサトコさん、おつかれさま：）このブログ読んでるかもしれないから一様ここで...読んでなきゃでしょ；）
When we were done enjoying the sunshine we went back to Noriko-san's place for a tea time... As we were getting ready to leave Satoko-san told us that she was planning on walking home, which is about 40 blocks(she was guessing it will take about an hour and a half)! I couldn't believe her but she sent all of us a message later that night saying she did it in about an hour so good job to you if you are reading my blog... which you should...;-)
ボーナス：これは先週マディソンの家でしたプレイグループの写真です。アキコさんが撮った写真なんだけど凄い良く撮れてるから紹介しまーす！
Bonus: These pictures were from last week's playgroup but ones Akiko-san took were great so I wanted to share with you guys!
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