Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Today - A Beautiful Day!!!!

I wrote this in my scribble pad an hour or two back.

This is one of the best days in my life. Right now, sitting in beautiful Hudson Waterfront park and watching a pigeon walking around in search of crumbs. Just loving it.

My day started off with little tension as we had to go to the Indian Consulate to renew his Passport. I missed to inform him that he does not have his photographs and visa copy. He was kinda tensed 'cos of that. We planned to be in the Consulate by 9.30 but managed to be there by 11.30 after getting the missing items in place. The receptionist looked at the documents and said that we have the wrong application form and we should get another form from the new website :-( Again, it was I who gave the link to him, luckily he forgot about it :-) We were not disappointed that we couldn't get the work done, in fact we were happy for some reason.

To get back home, we had to go to the subway which was few blocks away. But instead of going there directly, we started walking in search of a good restaurant or show room as he wanted to use the rest room. After walking 5 or 6 blocks we got into NY&Co. showroom. While he was using the rest room, I tried few dresses took snaps and also purchased 2 tops for 60$. I guess that's the costliest rest room he has ever used in his life :-P

He was much more relaxed now, and we started walking towards the subway. On the way, we came across a beautiful second hand book store. Loved the traditional English look of the store. It reminded me of "The Shop Around the Corner" from "You've got Mail". It had a good collection of books. I didn't know most of the books as I am not a sound reader but managed to pick 4 or 5 books. The hard bound cover with matte finish and the old look of the books were too good to resist. While going through those books the first person who came in my mind was Karen. I guess she would've spent the entire day going through all the books and probably end up buying them all. Karen, if you are reading this, tell me the name of your favorite author or poet, I shall get you some books. After picking few books and chatting with an old man there we headed back to the subway. This time we did not stop anywhere else.

After having lunch in a French Restaurant, he went off to work and I came to Exchange Place. I can never get bored of this place. I can see the Hudson River and the Manhattan Skyline from here now. These are the snaps which I took there using my mobile.






It is a wonderful feeling to be alone, reading a book, scribbling in the notepad, watching birds & people around and also getting to know that I will be going to Canada in a week or two for a project.

Am I Dreaming or LIVING MY LIFE?!