Final evening, Anton and I sat on the stoop ready impatiently for our friends to reach…
…till my brother Nick and my cousin’s son Jimmy (aka Anton’s second cousin) arrived from England to spend every week with us in Brooklyn. It’s Jimmy’s first time within the U.S., and once I requested him what he’d love to do — trip the Cyclone at Coney Island? see the view from the Empire State Constructing? — he requested me, earnestly, “Do you guys have Dunkin’ Donuts?” We do, Jimmy, we do.
What a enjoyable task to consider how one can present a 13-year-old round NYC — what are the enjoyable actions particularly for preteens? Final evening, we ordered pizza and rode bikes and scooters alongside the river to the Brooklyn Bridge, whereas the solar set — or, as Jimmy mentioned, while the solar set. My brother additionally cemented his “enjoyable uncle” standing by doing wheelies and driving down stairs.
This morning, poor Jimmy awoke at 5 a.m. (jet lag!) however waited patiently till all of us roused a couple of hours later. Then we walked to get bagels and took goofy photographs. Subsequent up: purchasing for “trainers” and going to the Yankees recreation. (Toby’s visiting my mother proper now, however they arrive again to New York on Friday for a good larger reunion.)
Plus, a flashback:
Jimmy and Anton in Cornwall (ages of the cousins, from left to proper: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8!). They’ve been mischievous soulmates since day one.
On Anton’s sixth birthday, and Jimmy was seven.
This summer season, when Anton turned 12 and Jimmy was 13.
We at all times love having guests, particularly these two! What about you? What do you present folks out of your hometown? Additionally, would you want an up to date Cup of Jo NYC information, perhaps one for youths, one for teenagers, and one for adults?
P.S. Our Brooklyn home tour, and all our previous England journeys, together with my aunt’s home tour.