Adventures NYC

Last weekend, Ella spent the night at Grandma's so Matt&I took Alexis down to an event in Central Park known as Adventures NYC.  They were giving out free bike helmets, so we each got one.  Pentax had a booth there and they were lending out really amazing digital cameras for 45 minutes.  You got to use the cameras to take as many photos as you wanted, testing out all the features (including UNDERWATER!) and then you could enter one of your photos into their photo contest.  The biggest bummer (besides that we didn't win) was that all the fun photos we took were on their camera- not ours.  So I have none of those photos to put on the blog.  My favorite was of Matt & Alexis jumping off the edge of the wall around Bethesda fountain.  Alexis also took several photos underwater in the fountain, which were kind of interesting.  I got a couple of shots of she and Matt using the camera.

North Face also had several booths there and had set up a sort of scavenger hunt of sorts- for each task you completed or item you checked off the given list, you could earn points which were then redeemable for prizes.  We earned enough points for Alexis to get a t-shirt and choose a design (she chose an owl) that was then screen printed on for her.  (One of the tasks was to pledge to help the earth or something like that... Lexi wrote that she would "pick up trash and keep the world clean." They placed her pledge at the top of the map).

And guess who we ran into?  Unplanned.  My brother, Uncle Chris.  NYC is awesome that way!