Little Red Lighthouse

A couple of weeks ago we went to the annual Little Red Lighthouse Festival.  This is always a popular neighborhood event and they have a limited number of timed-entry tickets to enter the lighthouse.  Every year we arrive after all the tickets have been given out, so this year we made an extra effort to get there at the beginning of the festival.  We were able to score some tickets, so our efforts paid off!  The festival was a little disappointing this year- I can only assume that the Parks Department had so many budget cuts that this event was affected, which was a major bummer.  But we did get to spend a beautiful morning on the banks of the Hudson River and to tour the Little Red Lighthouse underneath the Great Grey Bridge.

Climbing the stairs

View of midtown Manhattan from the lighthouse

View of the underside of the George Washington Bridge from the top of the lighthouse.  It's still so far away!

Caleb was sleeping in the stroller, so Matt stayed down with him.  Here's a view of them from the top of the lighthouse- about 40 feet up. (Matt's leaning on the fence & the stroller is next to the rocks)

Alexis was "terrified" of being on top.  I put that in quotes because I think she's going through a fear phase where things that have never scared her before are suddenly scary.  Apparently, it's a typical thing for seven-year-olds to go through.  Here we are looking north up the Hudson.

And here we are looking towards midtown Manhattan on the left and New Jersey on the right.