Time To Party - 4th of July

Happy Birthday America & Kasia!!! We spent two days celebrating the Independence Day of United States in NYC. Independence Day commonly known as the Fourth of July is associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball games, family reunions, and political speeches and ceremonies, in addition to various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the USA.

We were also celebrating Kasia'a 30th birthday and thanks to our wonderful friends we've got to party in the most amazing 230 Fifth rooftop lounge in Manhattan with the incredible view on the Empire State Building. Thank you Guys! We love & miss you all! x

American breakfast (look at the size of it)

St. Paul's Chapel, the oldest surviving church building in Manhattan. After the attack on September 11, 2001, which led to the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, St. Paul's Chapel served as a place of rest and refuge for recovery workers at the WTC site. 

New World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. The 104-story supertall skyscraper is being constructed in the northwest corner of the 16-acre World Trade Center site, occupying the location where the original 8-story 6 World Trade Center once stood .

Wall Street, the financial district of NYC named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan.  It is the home of the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies. 

The Statue of Liberty  is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue has become an icon of freedom and of the United States.

The view of the Manhattan, the most densely populated and the oldest of the five boroughs of New York City.

Broadway at night!

Me & Kasia in Central Park, public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City.

Turtle Pond in Central Park.

Turtle Pond in Central Park, NYC.

The King Jagiello Monument is an equestrian monument of king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Władysław II Jagiełło, located in Central Park, New York City.

Central Park.

The 2012 Macy's fireworks show featured more than 40,000 shells exploding at a rate of more than 1,500 per minute and fireworks reaching heights of 1,000 feet in the air.

The Empire State Building,102-story skyscraper. View from the 230 Fifth  rooftop  lounge!

Happy Birthday Kasia! xxx

Lukas, Kasia, me, Michaela, Jerry, Claire, Marcin and Magda :-)

On the way to Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Bridge,  one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River.

New York City Heat Wave!

After an unexpected change of plans and extra day in Santa Cruz beach (where we sunburnt like a chili crabs) we arrived to New York City! Midtown Manhattan, or simply Midtown is only a stone's throw away from the Union City, place where we stay. It is home to some of the city's tallest and most famous buildings, such as the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building. It also contains world-famous commercial zones such as Rockefeller Center, Broadway, and Times Square.

Po nieoczekiwanej zmienie planow i dodatkowym dniu w Kalifornii (na plazy w Santa Cruz, gdzie ostatecznie udalo sie Nam zaliczyc oparzenie sloneczne) w koncu wyladowalysmy w Nowym Jorku. Srodkowy Manhattan, ktory jest tylko rzut beretem od Union City, miejsca w ktorym sie zatrzymalysmy, byl Naszym pierwszym celem na liscie. Jest to miejsce znane z najwyzszych i najbardziej znanych budynkow na swiecie, jak Empire State Building and Chrysler Building. Miesci sie tutaj takze znane Centrum Rockeffelera, Broadway i Times Square.

Times Square Subway

NYC Public Library in Bryant Park, 5th Avenue

Famous 5th Avenue

Getting street hot dogs, 6th Avenue

Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa!

Entrance to Rockefeller Centre 

View from Top of the Rock (Rockefeller Centre)

View from Top of the Rock (Rockefeller Centre) 

View from Top of the Rock (Rockefeller Centre) 

View from Top of the Rock (Rockefeller Centre)

Sunset at Top of The Rock

View from Top of the Rock (Rockefeller Centre)

Night view from Top of the Rock (Rockefeller Centre)

NYC streets

NYC streets

Times Square NYCPD

Kasia in Times Square

Iwona in Times Square

Queuing :-p

Buffalo In A Misty Golden Gate Park

Larger than Central Park in NYC, the Golden Gate Park is the third most visited city park in the United States (after Central Park in New York and Lincoln Park in Chicago).

Bison have been kept in Golden Gate Park since 1891, when a small herd was purchased by the park commission. At the time, the animal's population in North America had dwindled to an all-time low and San Francisco made a successful effort to breed them in captivity.

Bison Paddock

In 1902, the parks commission authorized construction of two windmills to pump subterranean water to supply the park. The first one, on the north side of the park facing the Pacific Ocean, was completed in 1903 and became known first as the North Windmill and later as the Dutch Windmill; it is now paired with the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden. The second, Murphy's Windmill, on the south side of the park, began operation in 1908. They operated for several decades, but fell into disrepair after the park switched to electric water pumps.

The 5 acres (2.0 ha) Japanese Tea Garden is the oldest public Japanese garden in the United States. The garden was designed by Makoto Hagiwara for the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894, including still-standing features such as the Drum Bridge and the tea house. Subsequent additions included a pagoda and Zen garden. It is one reported site of the introduction of the fortune cookie to America.

Time to say Good-Bye to San Francisco :-(

Alcatraz, view from the Treasure Island

Bay Bridge

SF Downtown

Castro Street

Bay Bridge, on the way to Oakland

American Motel in Oakland