Brooklyn Botanical Garden

http://www.bbg.org/

Cherry blossoms were the main reason we decided to venture off to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. We decided to purchase the Art & Garden tickets so that we could enjoy both places in the same day. Little did we know we would have so much trouble purchasing the tickets! The garden's sales booth is run by teenage volunteers who are not even familiar with the different pricing plans. We asked for 2 student, 1 adult Art & Gardent tickets which costs $11 and $16 respectively. (This is a pretty good deal considering all the things we were going to see!) But at the booth, we were trying to explain to the perplexed teenager that we wanted the Art AND Garden ticket. She had to ask her manager (twice) for help but ended up ringing us up for 1 student and 1 adult combo, on top of 2 student and 1 adult garden ticket. The booth next to us had similar troubles as they didn't recognize the corporate company discount.

Many minutes later, we were free to wander around the beautiful garden. I vaguely remember coming here when I was young. We were able to take tons of pictures (as evidenced by the above slideshow) and see most of the garden in less than 2 hours. It was fairly crowded, lots of families with young children. But I'm glad we picked that day to go because it was the perfect time to see the cherry blossoms. The Brooklyn Botanical Garden website said the blossoms are in first bloom and I thought they were absolutely beautiful! The light wind blew the blossoms into the sky and gently fell on the green grass - it made for many picturesque Kodak moments.

Another favorite location was the long curvy row of tulips planted across from the gift shops and Observatory. It was the most amazing row of landscaped colors!! The security guard was really strict about us stepping the gray stone pathway adjacent to the flowers. We were to remain at least a foot away from them. Hmmm, and what was the point of putting the benches inches away from the flower bed? I guess they didn't want anyone falling into the flower bed. We also enjoyed the Japanese pond - we enjoyed the (mating?) turtles and fishes more than the anything! There were certain spots that we missed, like the Rock Garden and the Children's Garden but we didn't feel like we missed out on anything. We skipped out on the Observatory as well - so if anyone thinks it was worth going to, please leave a comment.

Brooklyn Museum's Murakami exhibit review is coming....