Celebrating the Solstice

I ate copious amounts of almond butter and jelly sandwiches yesterday.  Look closely, that’s not your regular old jelly.  That’s homemade strawberry jam made by my mom over the weekend.  It is seriously like heaven in my mouth.  I used to smuggle jam into the United States from Poland because I love homemade jam so soo much!

After I had my jelly fix for the day, Munchkin and I went to the Long Island City Piers to hang out with Munchkin’s god-daddy and celebrate the summer solstice by watching the latest sunset of the year.

The park was recently expanded and they added so many cool new things, like the hammocks that you can lay in and relax while admiring the view of the city skyline.  Munchkin was not impressed by the hammocks, he likes the ground below him not to be moving. He had a really good time climbing around on different benches and hanging out with his godfather.

The brand new playground which was opened just a few months ago is already closed, so all we could do was admire it from afar. 🙁

The sunset was absolutely gorgeous, but then again every sunset looks pretty great with the skyline.

It kind of makes me sad to think that the days are going to get shorter and shorter again, I love the long days of summer where it seems like the sun will never set.  Hope you all had a great first day of summer!