Despite the gloomy weather, the heavens were smiling at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden today. A fabulous place to hold a wedding, the Garden is resplendent with flowers and exotic greenery. A mama duck was sheltering tiny ducklings in the pond when we arrived at 10:30. The Conservatory, where weddings are performed, is all glass with white metal. It rises dramatically above the garden. It's a spectactular location to take the vows.
But before the description of the wedding (I'll save that for Part III), I first have to tell you about last night, Saturday. Stacey and I have been working on editing photos...hours and hours of editing. I, the Camp Kinderland photos, which have to be ready for next weekend: Visiting Day! There's a lot of work to be done: photos printed for the books that the parents will peruse to place their orders. And more photos mounted on 30x40 inch boards to display larger prints of each bunk and group. Stacey, on the other hand, is editing her photos from her trip to Palestine; she took some 700 photos - very exciting but, again, lots of work reviewing, enhancing and deciding which to upload so they can be shared online.
Well, about five o'clock we both decided we had enough of staring into the monitors (it gets pretty tedious after a while). We had theater tickets for a nine o'clock show of Cookin' which features a dozen or so Koren cooks vigorously chopping food. Yep, the play's the thing, someone once wrote.
The plan? We would have a drink, then dinner near the theater which was in the Village. We parked the car on Sixth Avenue and wandered down Prince Street to the Cub Room for some very expensive drinks (Soho is lovely but oh-so-pretentious, not to mention, overpriced). Now, where to eat? We had a coupon for Provence, a French restaurant on MacDougal Street. But how could we eat there when Bob's restaurant was just a few doors up the block? Loyalty won out and we strolled up to his place. Would it be crowded? We hoped, yes. Sure enough, it was! Crowded with a private party. It seems we stumbled on Bob and Elizabeth's wedding party for out-of-towners. For a while we were kidded about crashing the party, looking for handouts. Elizabeth and Bob insisted that we join the party and we did.
P.S. We missed the show. But we did have a good time and got to meet the folks from out of town.
Josh and his cousin Jessica, from California.
Elizabeth's nieces: Hannah and Sydney - they won my heart!
Jessica and Bob.
The "out of towners" at the Gulf Coast Cafe.
If you want to see all the "out of town" party pictures at Gulf Coast Cafe just click here.
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