All-Star Blimp

Yankee Stadium is almost exactly two miles away from my apartment.  Over the weekend the Goodyear Blimp started making daily appearances in anticipation of tonight's All-Star game.  Walking home this evening I spotted no less than five airplanes towing advertising banners.  There was also one hot air balloon.  What I did not see was the blimp.

The All-Star game will be getting all the attention this evening, and rightfully so, but it may not be the biggest event going on in town.  The Philharmonic is giving a free concert in Central Park this evening.   Those concerts usually draw at least 50,000 people.

I wanted to go but forgot about it until I went for a bike ride in the park.  It was easy to distinguish the concertgoers from the regular park users.  Classical music fans, remember your Safety City lessons and look both ways before crossing the park drives!  I'm not one of the intense spandex-clad cyclists who ride to experience pain as a way to face their inner demons and who would rather scream at pedestrians than slow down ruin their precious workout, and yet I nearly ran into several people as they obliviously stepped into traffic.  For the record I do want to commend the parks department guy who advised me to watch out for the pedestrians well after I had come to a complete stop.

Comments

[Liz]

Everytime I see the blimp here in New Jersey, I say, "The blimp, I love the blimp"