A Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge

Here's a nice activity that is nice and pleasant, and thus it comes as no surprise to me that the children that I go to school with would not have dreamt of -- not that, of course, video games and three consecutive hours of instant messaging isn't fun. I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. (That is, by the way, a five-and-a-half mile walk there and back.)

And we couldn't have picked a better Sunday to do it. My mother, like all mothers, was mortified that we would catch a cold, but halfway across the East River, we all decided to stall and take of our winter jackets. For some reasons, it was warmer over the East River twenty (about) feet up, then it was on either side on land. Interesting.

Anyway, so we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and back. I learned a new fact: at one point, when the Bridge was opened, since it was the first bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, it actually had railroad tracks -- and at one point it only carried trains and a walkway. Imagine. Anyway, here are some pictures:





This is my favorite picture from the expedition: