Pasha's Sparkling Garden of Rugs

On the Friday of Labor Day weekend, Mac and I headed into Lambertville to hang out, have dinner and see the fireworks. Our plan was to head to Pasha Rugs which, on nights when there are fireworks, hosts Pasha's Sparkling Garden of Rugs. This includes a huge spread of free Turkish food, live Turkish music and free tastings of Rakı in the little yard behind the store. They also claim to have the largest pillow ever that you can lounge on in the store. So Mac and I spent a bit of time here, enjoyed the food and music and then walked around Lambertville and over the bridge to New Hope. We decided that Lambertville was more our speed and headed back over the bridge, which was ridiculously crowded with people getting ready to watch the fireworks. We found our way back to Pasha's and watched the fireworks and then stuck around taking these silly photos in the Sparkling Garden:

This (below) is the worst photo of us, ever. We were trying to make it so you could see the Turkish rugs we were sitting on, but every time we looked at the photos on the back of the camera, we just started laughing so hard at how bad they were.

And here is Mac on the biggest pillow ever. It was really an amazing store, and if I ever have thousands of dollars to spend on a beautiful handmade rug, I know where I'll go.

We ended the night by having a drink at a bar along the canal, which was quite lovely. Really we just wanted to wait until all of the fireworks traffic got out of town, and it pretty much worked. It was a lovely way to kick off the unofficial last weekend of summer.