Trip To The Big City

Ok so our first stop was to New York City to go see the Statue of Liberty and to ground zero. We had heard that you should never go to new york without an unbrella so we packed a few and headed out. We had also bought a new camera for our vacations so throughout these next couple of days of slides you will see we were still trying to get used to the focusing on the camera hence all the blurry pictures. It took us about 45 mins to drive there from our house. As we were getting on the ferry to take us over to Statin Island it started to rain. We were glad we had the umbrellas.. It was really foggy as you can see in some of the shots we were trying to get of NY. The first stop was at the emmigration museum which was pretty cool. They had a flag that was pretty neat at one view of it you could see the flag and as you walk past it changes to photos of all the emmigrants who have come to the united states. It was pretty neat. They had alot of rooms with old photos and an acutal book they had to sign when they came into the states. I wish we would of had a little more time to walk through it to see everything but everyone was in a hurry to get over to the statue.

The statue of liberty was cool. We were able to go inside the statue. They dont let you go all the way up any more but you are allowed to to to the base that she stands on. They have a little museum inside that shows how she was made and the materials and tools it took. Pretty interesting. Then we hopped the ferry over to battery park but what we didnt know was if you take the ferry over your on your own the ride back is not a part of the ferry trips. So needless to say when it came time to come back and we found out we couldnt get a ferry we were panicking a little.. We eventually found out we had to get a water taxi to take us back over so after walking another mile and a half we finally made it, but while we were there we were ble to go see ground zero. They have alot of it blocked off now so you dont get to really see much of it, but we were told that if we went to the top of the burger king building across the street you could get some decent pictures so thats what we did. The pictures turned out pretty good i guess from taking it inside through a window.

I think we about did mom in that day. We did alot of walking and her knees are not good she is acutally having both of them replaced next week. She was pretty swollen up by the end of the day.. We were hoping to find her a wheelchair but we never did find one.. By the time we ended up coming back the weather had cleared a little giving us a chance to get some pictures of new york from the water taki as we headed back. It was a fun long day... There was so much more we wanted to go do and see while over there but just didnt have the time.. We would have liked to go see time square and central park maybe go see a broadway play. Owell maybe another day.. You really need a couple days to just do New York City.

I will post more tomorrow on our trip up to Upper State New York and Palmyra and over to Niagra Falls.

Sorry about the multiple shots of the statue and of NY. You know men when they get a new toy (camera). I think i must have deleted at least 30 shots and still have at least 20..