On Monday we went to the Staute of Liberty. We had bought tickets last February. It's a good thing since only 240 tickets are sold for anyone day to get up to the crown. People were in awe that we had tickets for "the crown". Right now if you try to get tickets for the crown you can't go up until the end of September. It was quite the walk, 354 steps up to the top of the crown and it was 97.7 degrees up there. Kent and I were both drenched with sweat but it was well worth the view and the bragging rights. Erik loved the journey up there also and of course beat us to the top by a mile. Throughout our days in NY there are many more stairs than just this as we are up and down the subway stairs several times a day. It seemed liked every we went there was stairs!
After we toured around the staute we went over to Ellis Island. At both the staute and the island we had rented the audio tour guides and it was great to hear about each room and how the island worked. We loved it!
We actually went over to Wall Street before the statue since we had a bit of time. It was fun seeing the bull and walking around looking at all of the buildings that you hear about on the news.
This is the New York Stock Exchange. Mostly we wanted to see the building where we send all of our money to die.
Later in the day we went to Time Square. It is a really busy tourist place but fun to look at all of the lights and advertising. I wanted to put more pictures up but I'm working off my phone for intenet (I'm too cheap to pay the $12.95 a day at the hotel for most days) and it takes about 5-6 minutes for every picture to load up. LOL I will try to get caught up a bit more tonight and write about our day on Tuesday.
After we toured around the staute we went over to Ellis Island. At both the staute and the island we had rented the audio tour guides and it was great to hear about each room and how the island worked. We loved it!We actually went over to Wall Street before the statue since we had a bit of time. It was fun seeing the bull and walking around looking at all of the buildings that you hear about on the news.This is the New York Stock Exchange. Mostly we wanted to see the building where we send all of our money to die.Later in the day we went to Time Square. It is a really busy tourist place but fun to look at all of the lights and advertising. I wanted to put more pictures up but I'm working off my phone for intenet (I'm too cheap to pay the $12.95 a day at the hotel for most days) and it takes about 5-6 minutes for every picture to load up. LOL I will try to get caught up a bit more tonight and write about our day on Tuesday.
We went over to the World Trade Center site. It's not quite the same right now as they are working very hard to build the new buildings. It was still a strange feeling walking around what was there and remembering what happened there.
If any of you know Kent and cameras it will not surprise you to know that I downloaded his pictures to my computer he had taken around 225 pictures for just today! I'm saving each of you from the pain and I have just put a few of them on the blog.
They had so many cool exhibits in the museum. There were 4 floors of exhibits to look at. We took a short 1 hour tour of the museum to give us the highlights and then we walked around for another 3 or so hours. 
After the museum we went over to Central Park. If you recognize this bridge it was used in the movie Enchanted. It was really beautiful there but it was pretty warm today and very humid.
