I took myself down to Coney Island today and met Melody and Vicki there to watch the annual Mermaid Parade. We arrived about 1:45 pm for a parade that was supposed to start at 2 pm, stood around until the parade actually started at 2:30, and then left around 3:45 - though there were many lovely mermaid costumes (and just as many less-lovely costumes), there are only so many mermaids I can handle in a day. And there wasn't any end of mermaids coming any time soon.
(Favorite mermaids, by the way, were probably a group called the Kung Fin Fighters. They were separated into red and yellow fin fish, and they did a dance routine to "Kung Foo Fighting"... I also really liked the costume of a pregnant woman who dressed up as a clam: her round belly was a pearl! How cute.)
I went to a Jamaican bakery (the Golden Krust?) for the first time, and had a spinach pita pocket which was tasty, and then the three of us went out to the boardwalk.
At 6 pm, joy of joys, there was the bubble battle! Free mini-canisters of bubbles for those of us who didn't come prepared (me), and people shooting bubble guns at one another, and ginormous bubble wands and the entire boardwalk filled with effervescent, shimmering spheres of summer perfection. A sea of people were thronging beneath a sea of bubbles.
It was a good day :) -- topped off with bangers and mash from an Australian pub (Eight Mile Creek) eaten in a charming beer garden in Little Italy and a cupcake from a bakery just a few blocks down the way. Charming.
Okay, that bubble battle sounds awesome. But I also have to make one small correction: it's spelled Kung Fu.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I have seen "Foo Fighters" written more than I have seen "Kung Fu." It has become natural to write it this way.
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