New York City Spring Break

I did a little research before we visited Central Park, and found out about all of these statues. Most of them were figures of people like William Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus and Ludwig Van Beethoven. Those guys probably rocked in their time period and history has not forgotten their efforts. Those guys are dead and this is not history class, so I just don't care about seeing statues of them. One statue that we did need to see was one that featured the characters from Alice in Wonderland. How anyone can be upset with that story is beyond me. I sat atop the magical mushroom with Alice and laid down alongside her as the Cheshire Cat watched over my shoulder.

Quite often, it seems as though I unintentionally start a revolution of epic proportions. For whatever reason, kids often follow my example and the results are always bad. I forget that kids are impressionable, and I always end up doing the wrong thing when they are watching. Shortly after I got down from the mushroom, some nearby kids swarmed on top of it and treated this work of art like a schoolyard jungle gym or McDonald's Playland. Jenny and I wanted a kids-free picture with the Wonderland gang, and we waited for over a half hour for the parents of these kids to restrain them from goofing around and defacing this public display of love for a rather twisted literary work.

We didn't know how long these little bastards, I mean kids, would be climbing around and interfering with our picture, so I snapped a shot of Jenny sitting down in front of it. Do you see that woman in the black coat that looks like it was made out of crow feathers? She bothered me because she had no control whatsoever over her children. We just wanted them all to leave.

The mad hatter will always remind me of Tom Petty. In fact, in his disturbing 1985 video for "Don't Come Around Here No More", he dressed up as the Mad Hatter and chased Alice around with a knife.

After all of those crazy little buggers finally left, Jenny and I were free to take these two pictures, and then we went on our way. From the time we got to this statue until the moment we left, close to 30 minutes had passed, which is a long time to view a singular piece of art. We were a little upset that we had to wait so long, but it was alright because we didn't really have anything else to do. After our Alice in wonderland adventure, we continued our Thursday afternoon stroll through New York City's famous Central Park.