San Gennaro

This Saturday morning I woke up to Jen telling me our neighbors had invited us to the San Gennaro Festival which I had forgotten I wanted to go to.  After late weekend nights at work it’s hard to get up and out the next morning but the Saturday was worth it. The streets of Little Italy were packed with everything awesomely Italian (like corndogs!).  We ate seafood, sausage and peppers, and of course, a cannoli. We parted ways with our friends after a few hours so we could pick up a few things for Pup before I had to head into work again.  Poor Puppers has been battling fleas.  We had to get her some flea medicine and some bones : )

I finally feel completely rested on Mondays after napping all Sunday afternoon and working out in the gym in the morning. Today I wanted to take advantage of one of the last few days of summer weather and went to a Bryant Park piano show.  It’s a free performance held a few afternoons a week by great city pianists. Yuka Aikawa was the artist performing today and played many classics that I could recognize. She had a book open in front of her but it was on the same page the whole time and she never even looked up. Pretty amazing that she played from sound or memory for about two hours. The whole thing is pretty casual so I took Pup along to get her out of the house. She had a great time staring down people eating their lunches and letting out a single yip at those that were clapping at the end of each set.

I’m trying to take advantage of all the free Summer in the City things while it’s still nice and warm out. I’m planning to make it back to Bryant Park in the morning for a free yoga class.