I ♥ NY

Hey Fellas !

This is CsLaKoNaS. Fairy keeps mumbling that I do not really care about this blog, so I don't care about her, hence I don't love her etc etc...Well what can I say? Women...

So this time I want to take you tour to NY. This is our first and only trip to this great city. Generally speaking cities do not impress me. This is the rule and NY is it's exception! So here we go... We traveled by car (I love traveling with the car) and stayed at a rather cheap hotel in Times Square! Please bear with my really really bad photos. Thank you in advance :)

So this is the Times Square. Always crowdy ... kitsch yet classy....

Since we are talking about kitsch we felt like acting like Americans...so we took the sight-seeing tour-bus ! In fact, although kind of lame, this is an effective way for a first touch with the city, isn't it ?

Despite the bold head of our colored friend present in the majority of the photos I hope you get the idea that we really had a very good time!


Ground zero:

All in all it was worth the money. You had the chance to see numerous stuff within a couple of hours. Next day we were on our own...We climbed to the Empire State Building. Believe it or not, it took us less than 3o minutes to the Top !

Although cloudy...it was awesome!


The Central Park

We were really lucky. The average estimated waiting time is more than 2 hrs. We saw that as soon as we went down...Unprecedented scrimmage ! Anyway after the 9/11 the Empire State building is the highest one in Manhattan.

However, as soon as, my poor little fairy and I came across this building,

she readily objected that 'this just cannot be the "higher" building' ! :))) OK fine, you can mock her ( as I have been doing since ) ! She was not that fluent in English back then...But she is getting better...

Now opposite to the Cathedral

Stand the Rockefeller Center:
with Atlas...


Now, we can't remember this church, but it is really impressive...
Where's my Waldo ??
Oh, there she is !!

She is in Central Park !

A lame view of the Plaza !!!
Leaving the city that never sleeps... via the Brooklyn Bridge...
...every corner of it reminds you that.... everything is normal :)

Take care...fellas !!

Our first walk in D.C.

It seems that CsLaKoNaS will not post anything else here...
I was waiting him to post our first walk in D.C. I was waiting for three months...
So, I am writing this post on my own. :p

Here we are! This is our first walk in Washington D.C. together...
We have just got out of the Federal Triangle metro station.


This is the first picture I took. It is just the building of SunTrust Bank, but I liked it.


This is the US Treasury Building. The building is right next to the White House, and once housed the Department of Justice.


The statue you see is Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury.

This is one of the statues in Lafayette Square:

He is Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat who came over to serve in General Washington's army in the American Revolutionary War and became a very close lifelong friend of George Washington.

I think that everyone knows what the next photo is. It is the White House. Don't try, you can see neither Barack nor Michelle.


This is an old office building near White House. It really looks like a dollhouse...


This is the statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko in Lafayette Square. He is a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, the United States and Belarus.


The Renwick Gallery, a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum:


The next statue is the First Division Monument and commemorates those who died while serving in the 1st Infantry Division of the US Army.


And this is the back side of the White House with the famous oval office ;)


Just a fountain. Okay CS, I like taking stupid photos... What's your problem? :p


The next photo is the Washington Monument, the obelisk.

The obelisk and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Every single time that CsLaKoNaS sees this photo, he is thinking of the scene in the Forrest Gump movie.


and here is Lincoln looking at his reflecting pool...


That's enough with the monuments, now a taste of the capital's nature...



These were some photos of our first walk in D.C.
Now, one year and a half later, we live in D.C. together... :)

Have a good night and take care....


PS: CsLaKoNaS will upload soon some photos of our visit in New York City (I will make him do so).

The National Zoo (part II)

Hello everybody,

Did you miss us ? We surely did! We continue our day at the National Zoo 2 months after the first entry (click here) (!!!) OK one does not to spend THAT much time there but it is really awesome. Recently we heared that there is a bunch of new arrivals at the zoo...these include elephants, camels, lions and giraffes... It's a pity we didn't find see any of them back in December, but it was the under-construction and renovation period...

Anyway what we saw was spectacular enough. We finish our visit with this entry.

Lets get away from the fairy's small mammals :

and meet some more interesting living beings.....

To begin with some impressive, the American Alligator (just the eye, he was hidden):
Coral community:
Coral Reef community:
Sea-stars:
Colorful Anemones:
a different kind of crabs:
Giant Octopus:
Nautilus:
a huge Lobster:
Gila monster:
Veiled chameleon:
Green anaconda:Cuban crocodile:
Inland Bearded Dragon:
Grand Cayman Iguana:

Sumatran Tiger:
OK the last one was kind of blurred but hey...it's CsLaKoNaS who's shooting!

We will see you soon !