A long walk

Yesterday was a beautiful day. What better way to celebrate than to take a long walk. But where to go with a small baby? Well, we've been to Central Park so many times, we needed somewhere new (and further away, if we were to take full advantage of the sun). So we decided to head to Grant's Tomb (a very small National Park, and the Tomb of American Hero and Missourian Ulysses S. Grant, which could quite frankly do with being a bit better signposted)

Discoveries:

1) It is literally 'quite difficult' to feed a baby whilst sitting on the grass and leaning up against a wall in Central Park

2) Grant's Tomb is shut on Saturdays (Or at least, it is only open one out of every two hours; and we were not there at an open hour. This may or may not be due to Republican austerity measures).

3) Bluet can sleep through anything, even whilst we eat a late lunch in the loud (but rather cool) Boat Basin Cafe.

4) if you walk really fast across Central Park, you can get home from the west side almost as fast as by cross town bus. Even when pushing a pram.

5) A 6 mile walk with a small child who is behaving very well (i.e. mostly asleep) is a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

6) After such exertion, everyone is very fatigued.