It was a warm day. We rode the bus down to the seaport to see what was "happening". One of the first activities to capture our attention was a high school band, complete with precision team.
Street performers abound on Pier 17 where we had a great vantage point from the third floor balcony of a small shopping mall. This was a team of two people - one male and one female. They set up a tripod of poles and proceeded to do acrobatics for contributions from the passing observers.
A close-up of the young lady doing one of her many feats.
The pier has many places to walk and take in the beautiful views.
The lady doing character portraits was busy.
We are great people watchers. The pier had native New Yorkers as well as many tourists. We enjoyed sitting a trying to ID the many languages we heard spoken - Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Russian, Italian and more.
If you look closely you can see the finished sketch of two of the children around the artist.
One of my favorite shops in the mall is what I call The Butterfly Store. Butterflies of all colors from all parts of the world. They look alive. The colors are so vibrant and beautiful.
Another butterfly from the store. We shared a table at lunch with two ladies and I showed them this photo. They thought the butterflies were possibly made of silk due to the wonderful colors.
There are bright yellow "water taxi"s. You can hop on and hop off at a number of stops and sight see. Today they seemed very busy.
Here is another street performer. She stood up on a platform and would pose for photos with anyone who wanted. If a donation was made she would pull some wires and her wings would expand. If the donation were made by a parent who's child posed for the photo the performer would give the child a small token remembrance.
We also saw someone making balloon animals, hats and swords.
Another street performance was by a group of acrobats/tumblers that worked to music.
There was also a vocalist who sang while being accompanied by instrumental music on tape.
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