Rachel Comes to Brooklyn

Last Friday, we welcomed our dear friend Rachel -- Katie's old roommate and fellow College Church regular -- to NYC for Labor Day weekend. Rach lives in Boston, where she recently began a Ph.D.  in biology at Harvard, but she won't tell you that, so we have to (we are so proud!).  

On Saturday we took the ferry to Governors Island, NYC's new summer hot spot and urban oasis. The island is named for the British governors who occupied it before the Revolutionary War, and was used as a military base until the 1960's. In 2002, it was sold to "the people of New York" and is now in the process of being made into a public park.

There are a handful of free things to do on the island, including touring some of the historic buildings and playing mini golf. We were most excited, however, by the free kayaking.

Among the historic houses and forts is interspersed a collection of modern art. Not being students of modern art, we were puzzled by this triangle of stone babies.

We took the time to explore this stone Episcopal church. 

In the visitors' center is a wall where you can stick a post-it note suggesting a use for the new park space. Guess which one is Daniel's.