This weekend, Beth and I decided to kill two Brooklyn birds with one stone. Two months ago, our friends Amanda and Andrew gave birth to their first child, Jacob. Giving them about a month to get over the initial shock and awe, we've been trying to figure out for the last couple of weeks how/when to pay them a visit and to meet Jake. It just so happened that this weekend was Sakura Matsuri, the Japanese cheery blossom festival at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.

Now, I often tease Beth for being Anglophile with her obsession of Shakespeare, English ascents and her Battle of Trafalgar commemorative tea set but in reality, I am very much a Japanophile. I was interested in going to the festival and so, we decided to pay the Glasgows a visit and check out the festival after.

We hadn't spent any time with the Glasgows since their baby shower at Chuck E. Cheese and we were happy to see them again. It was amazing to see them as proud and relaxed parents, excited to show of their new son and let us hold him. Jake is a cute kid and a very well behaved baby (as far as we were witness to). We order in lunch and ended up spending most of the afternoon just hanging out and talking. At the end of the day, we were only able to go to the botanical gardens for a half-an-hour or so before they closed. So, for all intents and purposes, we ended up blowing off the festival, which we really didn’t mind — we were having a better time with the Glasgows anyway.