Independence Day
We began the day with walking through Central Park, which is a large park in the middle of Manhattan, to get to Metropolitan Museum of Art. The park as you can see, is very green and clean (the water in the picture below is a bit too green though). It was very nice, but as we were there on the 4th July, which is the American independence day, a holiday, the park was packed! So I didn't take many pictures of the park.
This museum is also run on donations, so again we paid only 5 dollars for two people. That's like nothing compared to the real value of the museum. It's two floors high but very broad with many rooms. We could not even see everything because I got tired of all the walking.
First , we walked around the Greek and Roman art section
Hercules below
If I remember it correctly, this was African arts section
It was kind of like being in a maze, going from room to room and totally lost our sense of direction without knowing where we were. Looking at the map didn't help much either. Here we came back to the Greek art section again, but to another part of it.
This man is called Ugolino, and was senteced to death with his sons. No wonder he looks frustrated!
Christian art window
Young art student at the museum
Cleopatra
We took turns taking pictures with my camera, but somehow most of the pictures he took was of me....
I'm not really a fan of modern art, but somehow Issac likes this painting. He even said he wanted paintings like this in his apartment. Hummm....
War art...or whatever to call it.
War art...or whatever to call it.
Egyptian art
Persian stone figures
There was a large exhibition of paintings from 1700-1800, which is my favorite style of art. But when we finally came here I was too tired to enjoy them as much as they deserved.
Cambodian art, that I was NOT allowed to take pictures of but the guard told me that too late ;) Kind of confusing though when you are allowed and when you are not allowed to take pictures, there were no signs....
After the museum we went walked in the Central Park again and was planning to go to a café that serves "Frozzen hot chocolate". Sounds very interesting (I don't understand how something can be frozen and hot at the same time??), but first of all, we got a little bit lost in Central Park since no roads in the park are straight. They all are curved making it hard to know which direction we are supposed to walk, so we ended up passing the street we were heading to, and came to Colombus Circle instead.
Apple store with the entrance in a glass cube
Street view
We walked for about one and a half hour until we finally reached the café. I admit, it was my idea to save money and not use the subway much but we should have taken the subway instead. It was a clear sky with sun burning hot and almost no wind between all the high buildings. When we finally got to the café, we weren't the only ones hearing rumours about. It was packed with people and one and a half hour waiting time to get a table. Such a disappointment, but that's how it is when you read about a place on google. Just to expect that everyone else reads it too. Since we were so hungry and tired, we just went for the simple choice - Mcdonalds. As I thought this restaurant that you can find in every corner of the world would not bring any new suprise just because it's in the States, I was wrong. There was actually something quite interesting there. A coca-cola machine, that has all kinds of drinks with flavours you have never seen anywhere else before! In the picture, there is Coke with cherry, fruit punch, vanilla, orange and so on!!
It was unlimited refill, so I tried a little bit of every fanta and Sprite taste. My favorite was Sprite Peach, they should sell it at every store!!
After eating lunch we took subway to Staten Island where we could take a free shuttle boat passing by the Statue of Liberty.
The bridge that gets destroyed in every American action movie...
Manhattan
The statue! However, we apparently took the boat at the wrong time of the day, when the sun happened to be right behind the statue making the pictures quite dark....
We saw the boat that will shot the fireworks later this evening arriving to Manhattan, there was at least three or four of them!
The boat trip took around twenty minutes crossing the water to the opposite Island, but we had to wait both for getting on the boat to the Island, and getting back to the city. It didn't leave us much time to eat so we had to take the meal to-go and then go to the street near Hudson River where you could see the fireworks. But when we got there, it was filled with people and the police had to cut off some part of the roads leading to the road near the river. So we had to stand one street away from the river and tried to see the fireworks between the buildings.
We rushed off to the next intersection hoping we might be able to get a better view between all the buildings so we went from intersection to intersection as you can see in the pictures.
Finally arrived at a place were we got pretty good view.
And that was it for 4th of July!
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