Serendib Travel

I don’t know why I love medieval Gothic style so much, but I really really do. Cooper-Hewitt.

Art nouveau isn’t normally my style, but I kind of fell for these pieces from the Rozenburg Pottery and Porcelain Factory. Those plates! How fabulous would a dinner table look with a full set of those plates?

I wasn’t familiar with Sophia Crownfield’s work before. Gorgeous. Cooper-Hewitt museum: https://www.cooperhewitt.org/channel/crownfield/

Cooper-Hewitt. Second floor had a big botanical art exhibit, which you know I loved. These sculptures were exquisite.

Various AI exhibits, emphasizing the limits of facial recognition software…

Cooper-Hewitt design museum. This was honestly not super-exciting for Anand, and I thought it might not be, so I let him bring his iPad along, and he spent about half the time hanging out in the cafe with it while Kavi and I looked at the exhibits. Good parenting move on my part! But he

A delighted Savreen winning (with a little help) our game of Happy Families.

High Line — there are a lot of yummy food booths at various spots. This set was just a block north of Little Island. The mini donuts were a hit with Anand, and I thoroughly enjoyed a (not pictured) mango lemonade with passionfruit boba. Anand was pretty startled by that building in the second photo

We only walked a little of the High Line, because the kids were getting pretty tired — they’re not used to this much walking. But it’s so gorgeous these days; the last time I went, it was when it was first installed, and the plantings were still pretty small and sparse. It’s much more filled