Day 20 – Brooklyn. We’re on something of a Brooklyn run right now, having been or planning to go there for five of six weekends. A study in the diversity of what Brooklyn has to offer can perhaps be inferred from our reasons to visit:

• A “dinner event” hosted by a bookclub mate of mine that is half cozy restaurant where you know the owner and half dinner party.
• A baby boy’s first birthday party in Cobble Hill
• An invitation to hang out with friends from Massachusetts who were visiting his parents’ home off Ditmas
• A single woman’s big birthday bash replete with Williamsburgites who have turned casual slack hipster into a studied art form
• Moving extraneous stuff from our cramped Manhattan closets into its own special space in a storage unit in DUMBO