Brooklyn Exploration

Last night, I wandered around Bklyn with my friend Julie—she moved to New York from Boulder in April, so we're coming from the same place in more ways than one. We walked from Park Slope to Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill, then stopped into Sahadi's, a Middle Eastern grocery store on Atlantic. It's full of olives, nuts, cheese, stuffed grape leaves, baklava, coffee, and amazing spices.




We grabbed some spinach-and-feta pockets for a snack, then wandered down Smith Street (a really cool strip with lots of shops and bars and restaurants) to a Thai joint. Wrapped up the night with a drink at Brooklyn Social and took the subway our separate ways home. It was so fun to poke around the city with a fellow Colorado transplant—we could joke about feeling like villagers and reminisce about the Mountain Sun and the Indian Peaks! Even though she's been here longer, it—New York—is still a novelty to both of us. We plan to soak up the buildings, the crowds, the side streets, the food, the art, and the energy here for however long we end up staying. Still way too soon to know how long that might be.