Back to the island!

It was my sister's birthday a couple of days ago, we missed it because of the whole "other side of the world"-situation, unfortunately.. But my brother had us all pitching in on a great idea for a birthday present that we handed over today. Well... We were there through the magic of the internet, that is. My sister was happy with her present, I was happy about getting to see everyone again and the parrot was a bit taken aback about our sudden mysterious appearance on the screen in front of him.

You made it to the big screen sister! ;)
(The blurry green and yellow shape in the cage to the left is Ringo, our happy but confused parrot.)

After we caught up with everyone again we headed out to Randall's Island. The Randall's Island Park Alliance were hosting their annual Harvest Festival at the urban farm and we thought it might be nice to go there. The weather was fantastic anyway so at least we'd get a nice walk in the sunshine.

And we did!

"Hey, I can see our house from here!"

Literally Lawnchairs! :D

Lots of traffic on the East River

For some mysterious reason we both yelled "OI TUGGER!" at the exact same time..

Some tree huggin' hippie... ;)

The scenery

And we found the harvest festival! They even had a band!

The Urban Garden was actually really cool.

I was fascinated by these little bright red flowers, they're so pretty!

Gorgeous looking spiral herb gardens.

Butterfly!

A wild Avontuur in its natural habitat... So majestic! ;)

Most bizarre looking flowers I've ever seen, what the hell are these?

We took our time exploring the garden, laughing at chickens, sitting in the sun, joking around and finally walking home again, taking some more pictures on the way back. Randall's Island is a favourite spot of mine, I've done a couple of volunteer projects for the Park Alliance, it's at walking distance and the view across the river is really something. Especially in the sunshine.

So I'll just leave you with a couple more pictures.