Silence in NYC is valuable and very rare. There are small windows during the evening and certain times of the year that increase the probability of this phenomenon. Having decided to stay in the city for the holiday weekend, we were fortunate to be able to experience this rare luxury :)
Although it was a quiet, nothing planned, long weekend we did decide to get up early on the 4th and spend a relaxing day on the beaches of the New Jersey shore. It ended up being one of the hottest days of the year and thankfully we were able to take refuge in the cool water of the Atlantic! It must have been the sun, or maybe the 4+ hours on the train, but by the time we got home I was exxxhausted. I LOVE fireworks and I couldn't even motivate to walk over to the river to watch them...oh well, next year!
To cap off our perfectly relaxing weekend, and with the knowledge that most of the city had fled for the beaches, we decided to check out a normally ridiculously crowded pizza spot, Grimaldi's in Brooklyn. I've been once before and the pizza was worth the wait the first time, so I was more then willing to check it out again. The line wasn't too bad, I think we waited for 30-40 minutes and the pizza was sooo delicious. We got a simple cheese pizza and were in heaven! It was the perfect way to cap off the 4th of July weekend!
Happy Camper
