The Tribeca Film Festival

We went to this Film Festival kid's fair last year and had an amazing time. There was the most fabulous marionette show that positively Entranced P (and me!). Musicians performing on each block, stilt walkers, sandcastle builders, chalk painters, kite flyers, a kid extravaganza. This year we headed back for more fun, planning to join Uncle Seth at the festivities. But P wanted Nothing to do with it. Nothing. We walked a block of the fair to meet Seth, thinking P'd have a change of heart once Seth was on the scene, but no, he was Definitely not interested.

Fortunately, there's a great park nearby and a bike path, perfect for scooting, that leads there. Off we went, skateboarding and scooting to the Hudson. We paused and watched the water move and then went to the sculpture garden to play. P Loves this plaza, full of whimsical bronzes by Tom Otterness, chess boards with weird looking creatures (Seth said cat, P said sea creature) and bronze dogs chained to the drinking fountain. P wandered around chatting to himself, enjoying the details for a while and then bam! It was Seth time. They climbed, they jumped, they sat at the chess board. P was in heaven having his best buddy around for a such a good time.

After a while we scooted on to the playground and enjoyed the trampoline. (P's been permitting playgrounds quite a bit more lately, just in time for spring!) Seth and E played monster while P and I ran on the equipment. The path that winds from the playground, along the water, presented us with an enormous barge that P devoured with his eyes. He had a million questions and really enjoyed just Looking. Then E spotted some sort of monument (P's scooter was moving too fast for me to read) that had a twisting, turning, tunnel filled climb up to an overlook that was Gorgeous. Grasses were blowing in the wind and the water was laid out below framing... Leonardo Di Caprio :) We're fabulously big geeks and get a huge kick out of star sightings :)

Then as we zoomed to the southern tip of the city to catch our sub we wound up in some garden with a hedge maze. Phoenix's fascination with Labyrinths and Minotaurs positively feasted on this experience. E and Seth sweetly took him back through it, P grinning like a wildman. Afterwards, we followed the trails to the sub, to dinner, to gelato, to home. It was one of those perfect days that just Flow.