OMG U GUYZ!!!1!1! ITZ THE BRKLIN BRIG!!!!!!!!!

Ahem!

This is the Brooklyn Bridge! It’s a bridge that goes to Brooklyn AKA The Land of Mah People! In this picture, I am all HOLY COW YEAHHHHHHHHHHH because I am a tool who has never walked across it in all my years of city living. I placed this item on my Mondo Beyondo list partly because I actually wanted to walk across it (DUH!) and partly as a reminder to constantly explore this amazing city in which I currently reside!

Doing cool stuff in NYC can be quite overwhelming because a lot of the time, exploring and enjoying it involves an indispensible income or a huge time commitment or not getting daunted by making ten thousand subway transfers to get where you need to go. I started to get a little bit…elderly in my attitudes about going out. Particularly after I got my new job AND my new boyfriend, both of which happened to be located in the same borough as my apartment. I suddenly realized that all I did for DAYS at a time was hang out in Queens. PCG and I collectively decided that ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH! We were too young to be old and all “Hmmm…that’s a little far away and I have an early bedtime!” or “I don’t really want to go out because there’s a very good chance I might fall and break a hip!”

So, I tacked walking the Brooklyn Bridge onto my DREAMING BIG list in the hopes that it would continue to inspire me to GET OUT THERE and HAVE A LIFE! Huzzah!

Last Sunday was a GORGEOUS fall day, almost spring-like and even though I was up the night before babysitting until 2:30 AM (SERIOUSLY? WAHHHHHHHHH!), PCG let me sleep in and then told me it was time to rally and GO HAVE SOME FUN.

PCG and I have adopted “RALLY” as our call to arms. We each work pretty demanding schedules and sometimes we are so exhausted that we just sit on the couch and blink at the television. And most of the time, the television isn’t even on. And so we use “RALLY!” as a reminder to stop being so damn boring. Frequent text messages include “I CAN RALLY IF YOU CAN!” and “LET’S SUCK IT UP AND RALLYYYYYYYYY!”

And so, because he is a genius, PCG let me catch up on sleep, went and got me an iced coffee with lots of soy milk and then demanded I get READY TO RALLY!

And rally we did.

That bridge is BIG dude. And HIGH OFF THE GROUND. And sort of AMAZING!!!

We took our time leisurely strolling across, taking pictures and enjoying ourselves. I actually hummed the theme from “Taxi” when I saw all the cars moving through beneath us and waved hello to Lady Liberty numerous times. I have drive across the bridge numerous times but have never walked it and oh my! I wanted to walk it EVERY DAY!

We got off the bridge in Dumbo and discovered some amazing shops, restaurants and the Sunday flea market! WOOOOO FLEA MARKET! And this here is the magic of adding stuff to a Mondo Beyondo list! Seeing all the lovely little places in Dumbo made us want to come back. In fact, we made a promise to return and check out everything when we had more time, possibly around Christmas time, to shop and have a hot chocolate. VOILA! Exploring Parts of NYC - SUCCESS!!!

Except when I stepped on this random piece of tape and we got into a fight and the tape kicked my ASS. I seriously could not get it off.

Um. So. Tape Attack aside?

An altogether perfect late afternoon. I am so glad I put it on my list. And because I am a type A, I am also glad I can now check it off my list! And more impotantly, I AM SO GLAD I RALLIED!!!!!!!

You can see more pictures here.