weekend reflection

What a wonderful weekend spent with family and friends! I can't remember the last time I was in upstate New York. My weekend started out by accompanying my aunt to JFK airport in NYC to pick up my cousin who was arriving from having spent the summer as an exchange student in Spain. Then I continued with her to upstate New York (about 2 hours from the Canadian border) to visit family that live there. My mom has 2 brothers that farm up there. So I spent time hiking in the Adorandack Mountains, talking with cousins and cousin-in-laws, playing with my cousin's children and chit chatting with my aunts. I have come to realize (though I know there are ppl who would strongly disagree with me) that New york has 2 kinds of beauty. It has the beautiful mountains and lakes and huge farms but also the city. By the beauty in the city I am talking about the beautiful skyline the buildings make, the unique pattern of the outline of the buildings, the mix of culture, places like Times Square, Wall Street, Statue of Liberty, etc... Yeah Yeah I recognize the ugliness of the trash and crime as well but well there is crime everywhere and if we only focus on the crime in an area we miss the joy of it. Well I am tired so I will write more later.