Last week was my 38th birthday! I'm old.
But enough about that, it means it was time for my annual birthday trip to New York City!
And this time I took a stroll around Central Park! It's big, but this time I only walked up to the ice skating rink because my feet were already killing me from the trip there. Coulda went to the zoo, but that's a next time thing.
Some fantastic views.
And once again made it to Ichiran for lunch. That was real a real good bowl of ramen, no notes. Just right.
And had to snap some pics of a disappearing sight: Forever 21s that will soon be gone forever. 21. The one in Times Square used to be the Virgin Megastore and that's a hell of a thing to think about.
And finally the other reason I went into the city: American Woodcocks were spotted in Bryant Park! Apparently they show up there at the first sign of spring, and all the birding accounts I followed starting going nuts over sightings of them.
These are such borbs. They're the birds that go "meep."
It took a little while to look for one (there was a lot of brush clearing when I went and Bryant Park is not as big as you'd think it'd be), I found this one chilling under a bush. It was just sleeping when I found it, I didn't get to see it do its dance or anything. I never saw one in person before, it was such a rush when I spotted it. It's like "where is it?" then BOOM! It's right there.
And now as we say goodbye to March and welcome the April showers, here's some more random pics I took on that trip.
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