Brooklyn's Finest

Manhattan is great, but Brooklyn is just as large, dynamic, and unique in its own way. During our first week here we did some minor exploring of Brooklyn, but we planned on many trips back in the coming months.  So Saturday we decided to wake up early and take our talents to Brooklyn.

We started with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge.

There were a lot more people on the bridge than I expected.  But I guess I should have expected at least as many people as The Golden Gate Bridge would get on a nice day in SF.

So from there we wandered down to the Dumbo district of Brooklyn which has a ton of new shops, restaurants, and views of the city skyline and bridges.

From there we went over to the Williamsburg district and had a great dinner at Dumont.  Started off with some delicious cocktails.  Christie had a very large plate of Mac-N-Cheese and I had a really really good bacon cheese burger.

After dinner was done, we went over to one of Christie's co-workers places for a post test celebration.  It was a small but fun get together, but some of the biggest highlights were the views of the skyline.

Life would be good if the night ended then.  However, the "L" Train wasn't running (we didn't know this because we walked over there).  So instead of taking a direct route back to the island, we had to head through Brooklyn to get the J train.  I can write it down now, but at the time we had no idea how to get home...  So as usual we head to google maps and type in a J station name that was nearby, and we find a cab to take us there.  Instead of waiting to make sure we were at the right spot, we got off when we got to the intersection.  And we had that, "WE are not in Kansas anymore".  I guess we have been getting the gentrified, hipster, up and coming version of Brooklyn and not some of the less "pretty" versions of it.  But there we were almost midnight walking through a part of town we shouldn't have been.  We kept walking, not listening to the consistent howling and chatter coming our way from people in the neighborhood.  We eventually made it to a subway stop, and took 2 trains to get home.  We got home safe, but with a few good nuggets for next time.  Subways are constantly off line due to maintenance or something else and we should always make sure we are at our destination before getting out of our cab.