This was such an awesome day! We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and explored the Brooklyn waterfront for a while. The Bridge was so much more that just a foot bridge. What I found most interesting was to look at the writing on the bridge. I found little messages and the usual so and so was here graffiti, but for some reason I found it more meaningful on this bridge. If you think about New York and the Brooklyn Bridge as destination places, it is usually somewhere on the bucket list of most people, and its usually a one time adventure. People have written their favorite quotes, and messages to loved ones that have passed on. I see it as someone wanting to leave a little bit of themselves somewhere meaningful to them. These were two of my favorites:
I also came across hundreds of pad locks attached to parts of the bridge and along the Brooklyn Waterfront. The tradition with these "love locks" is to go to a bridge with your love and lock your souls together symbolically by putting the lock on a part of the bridge. It supposedly started in China, but it VERY popular in Europe. I found these two on the Brooklyn Waterfront:
Loved this day, can wait to check off something else.
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