Saturday. Need a break from City life? Yes. Got lots of cash? Yeah nope.

Sometimes you don't have to venture far out of the city to change your perspective. We often glance down from the top of buildings at all the people below moving like ants. But there's really nothing like being out on the water...

The air is fresh, the horns are silent, you can look all the way up the river past the GWB, and you can look all the way down the river past lady liberty. It's an interesting point of view looking back at the park and seeing people walking, jogging, biking, and chatting along the river path. And there you are, in a boat with the freedom to move. Direct yourself wherever you want in the water without the worry of bumping into crazy pedestrians.

We had heard about free kayaking offered in various places throughout the city, so we checked this one out on 72nd Street/Hudson River run by the nice (and cute) volunteers from Manhattan Community Boathouse. We simply walked up, chatted, signed our lives away and swore we could swim/would wear a life vest anyways, duh, and got to it. (They had free lockers you could stash your stuff in too!) We both love being in the water, so this was the perfect way to spend an afternoon without having to hop on the train for a day at the beach. (Caution: your butt will get wet. #lessonlearned #captainobvious)

After we got our "work-out" of the day in, and we had spent all of $0, we decided to hit up the ever so popular 79th St Boat Basin (keeping with our nautical theme), which took us a lot of effort to get to. We had to walk all of 5 blocks along the river to arrive, and then they let us drink a bucket of beer while we waited for a table. Life is hard.

Since there was such a long walk to the train (read: 3 blocks. we take lazy Saturdays seriously around here), maybe froyo was involved. Lips sealed. Afternoon nap taken.

Do you take lazy Saturdays to another level too?