New Years City

Back once more in New York City and this time over New Years. Arriving the evening of 26th the first night was pretty much just eat and then chill out and sleep. Got a great burger and shake at the resturant Harlem Shake.

After some great sleep I made my way to High Line, a long park created on an old industrial trainline. A truly beautiful place to walk through and provides a nice view of the streets below. It's also nice getting a break from red lights and cars. I belive it to be even better in spring and summer time.

The High line from below

On the High Line 

On the High Line

On the High Line

Looking down at a street

A cool sculpture

Another view of a street

Looking out towards New Jersey

A cool bridge between two buildings

A large building over the High Line

Traces of the old tracks

At the end of the High Line I went to have some lunch at the resturant Bubby's a nice American style resturant. Had a nice burger before continuing my adventrues.

Brooklyn Bridge

Took a quick trip by the Brooklyn Bridge, didn't walk on it but walked right past it which was really cool. It was hughmungus

Special lamp in China Town

China Town

From the Brooklyn Bridge I made my way to China Town. A very unique place with lots of asian looking things. For example the lamp posts, but also all signs beeing in both english and what I think is Chinese.

Statue of Liberty

NYC from the Staten Island Ferry

Trying to get to the Statue of Liberty seemed like a nightmare with all the tourists around so I went for the 2nd best option to see her. The Staten Island ferry. Going from NYC and then running around to board it again once you get to Staten Island you get a decent but still kinda crowded view of the statue. Definently quicker and easier to get on the boat and if you just have a phone up and walk towards the window most people will let you by to snap that picture of the statue.

Soul Food

Missing the south a little bit I made sure to get some Soul Food. Maybe not very healthy but oooooo DELICOUS! That mac'n'cheese is to kill for. Getting a box and paying by the pound at Jacob Soul food and salad bar. A great place where you can pick what you want and if you fill the box up you get you get a little more than full. Definently something to get if you happen to get up around Harlem.

Times Square at New Years

And now why is this post called New Years City... Well it was cold, it was freezing, it was kinda terrible but I was able to see the New Years ball drop at Times Square. I learnt an important thing about it. I will never do it again. It was a cool experience standing in the cold with like 1 million other people to see a small ball drop. You learnt a lot about how much cold you can suffer through, and how long you can hold from going to the bathroom. Getting in at around 16.00 (4 pm) it was a long and slow wait. Unfortanetly you can't leave to go to the bathroom and you get very cold from just standing still so moving your feet at all times is very important. But the people around you are very nice and you start playing games to make the time go.

Proud to have defeated the cold weather

If I'm ever gonna see the ball drop again I will watch it on TV or the internet. However no regrets about freezing my toes off. (They were not hurt just really, really cold)



After a night in the cold I made sure to sleep in and then went to the Museum of Natrual history. All I can say is lots and lots and lots of things... and people. Luckily I found a side entrance to the space part which made it a lot easier to get in as the line was shorter. Hard to describe everything they got so I just gotta say go there if you enjoy to see stuff about animals, people, space and like everything in between.
Aaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnndddd pictures!

Native American masks

More Native American stuff

Even more Native American stuff 

Dinosaur at main entrance

Elphants

Teddy Roosevelt at the main entrance

Main Entrance

Freeze dried Ice cream sandwich 

Freeze dried ice cream sandwich 

Freeze dried ice cream sandwich 

Freeze dried ice cream sandwich

I also got myself a freeze dried ice cream sandwich from the museum store. As you can see from the picture it's one that they have in space. It tasted like "meringue" (maräng på svenska) and was pretty nice to eat. Still had a little bit of an ice cream taste to it, allthough it wasn't cold.