Hope everyone had a good fourth! On Friday Courtney and I went to Central Park. I laid out with her for a little while but my skin can only take so much sun. I brought my running shoes and decided to go on a run. I ended up running the entire way around park -- which turns out to be about six miles. It really didn't seem that long though because there are so many things to look at along the way. I had no idea that there was a huge pool and baseball fields in the park.

We went out to a gay bar on Friday night with Scott and his friend. It was a lot of fun because you don't have to worry about any creepy men :-) While we were there we got some cosmos too -- classy!!!

Saturday Courtney and I met up with her friend from Hoboken in Central Park. We hung out with her for a bit and then walked around the Park. We headed back to the dorm to get ready to go see the fireworks. We met up down in the lobby to go with ppl from our dorm but we didn't get the memo that in order to go you have to be really weird and annoying.

Courtney, Miranda, and I broke away from the group pretty quickly and headed down to Chelsea instead. We walked through Chelsea Market and I got some nutella gelato. Soo good. We went on to the pier and watched the fireworks from there which turned out to be a great location. Taking the subway back was a little crazy though.

FIREWORKS!

Today Miranda and I headed over to a little restaurant called Alice's Tea Cup. All the decorations are based off Alice and Wonderland. I got some tea (they have over 30 flavors) and pumpkin pancakes with fresh fruit. I swear, I could eat pumpkin everyday for the rest of my life.

After our brunch we took the tram over to Roosevelt island. I think the last time I've been on a tram was when I wold go skiing. It was weird taking it during the summer --it was even weirder to think this is how people get to and from their home.

We took a bus ride around the island and walked around for a bit. It was a really pretty location but after reading more about the island I realized how creepy it is. One building used to be an insane asylum back in the 1800s but it's now an apartment building. Why would you ever want to live there?

There also used to be a prison but due to "a series of scandals" the prison was torn down. WHATT?! And there were several hospitals on the island -- one of which used to treat contagious diseases. Very weird.

After doing my laundry (such a pain) I went on a run down near the water -- right across from Roosevelt Island. dun dun dun.

-kt

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