This previous week, Anton’s 13-year-old second cousin, Jimmy, got here from England to go to Brooklyn. It was Jimmy’s first time within the U.S., and we had been all past excited. This morning, Anton and I had been reminiscing, and we thought we’d share photographs…
Jimmy lives in a small seaside city in England, and Anton instructed me: “We had been joking round, like, ‘Do you could have vehicles in England? Do you could have scooters in England? Do you could have gentle in England? Do you could have coloration in England?’ It was actually humorous. And generally when Jimmy would make a joke, we might be like, ‘Is that humorous in England?’ However his jokes had been truly actually humorous.”
Jimmy requested to see just a few sights, and we had been completely happy to oblige. “Can we go to the Louis Vuitton retailer that appears like suitcases?” he requested. I didn’t even know this existed, however after we headed to 57th Avenue, there it was!
We took him to the American Museum of Pure Historical past, one in all our long-time favourite locations…
…and to see Instances Sq. at evening, the place Jimmy did a again flip for a crowd. “He taught himself to do flips in his yard when he was six,” Anton instructed me. “He simply totally went for it as a result of he didn’t know the results had been that he might get his neck snapped!”
The boys additionally begged me to take them to the Chelsea Piers driving vary. They hit balls whereas I did the New Yorker crossword puzzle. “Jimmy instructed me he desires to trip in a yellow faculty bus,” Anton instructed me. “He’s by no means performed that.”
We additionally simply mucked round at dwelling…
…and within the neighborhood. “Once we had been strolling down the road, Jimmy was like, ‘Have a look at that, take a look at that,’ as a result of there have been so many alternative sorts of meals — Japanese, Lebanese, Thai, Italian, Vietnamese, French, Chinese language, Indian, Ethiopian…” stated Anton. “He additionally cherished 16 Handles.”
On the finish of the week, Toby and my mother joined us, and we went to a neighborhood café for espresso and magic methods with playing cards. Jimmy confirmed us some cool ones, and I busted out my previous favourite.
Lastly, on Sunday, my brother and Jimmy headed again to England, and, actually, all of us felt actually unhappy. It’s onerous to stay an ocean away from family members, as I’m positive a lot of you expertise, as properly. However we’re so fortunate to have the ability to keep up a correspondence. When my maternal grandmother moved from Manchester, England, to Chicago along with her new soldier husband, she might solely alternate letters along with her dad and mom, till they visited a few years later. The place do your relations stay? Are you shut by? Half a world aside? How do you keep in contact? I’d love to listen to. I do know there are execs and cons to each association. xoxo
P.S. Holy smokes, I’ve lived in NYC for 20+ years, and six NYC itineraries for youths.
