Friday night our young married group was together again. We had a campfire and got all smoky under the trees.
Saturday morning we drove up to Manhattan to my cousin's apartment. We met them for lunch, then took the train over to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden for Sakura Matsuri, the cherry blossom festival. It was very nice. They have Kwanzan cherry trees in a couple of rows that make a pink tunnel/arbor kind of thing under the trees. There were Japanese artists there making music and other demonstrations. We got there late for most of the events, but we did take in some absolutely beautiful Japanese flutes. We also briefly strolled around the Brooklyn art museum after eating some Jamaican grub, but we were all a bit weary and went back to the apartment.
Sunday Jen took us through a local park, and we stood at the place where legend has it the Europeans purchased Manhattan island from the native Americans for trinkets worth abut $24. What a ripoff. It reminded me again of how unfair some of the European politics were. For the afternoon we went down to 32nd St to a Korean restaurant. Amy had some kind of fish dish, and I had a taste of octupus. Very interesting. We got home about 7:00, in time to watch part of Amazing Grace, which as a movie I highly recommend. Its about William Wilberforce's efforts in England in 1780-1800 or so to abolish slavery.
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