Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"
Emma Lazarus
So today we have visited one of the most famous statues in the world: The Statue of Liberty. The trip from the southern tip of Manhattan out to Liberty Island is just a short ferry ride - and you get great views of New Yorks skyline from the boat. For anybody considering going to New York in the near future be sure to order your trip to the Statue of Liberty ahead of time. It is no problem getting to the island, but to get inside the statue you have to have pre-ordered your ticket (for the crown you might have to order a year in advance). We only had tickets to the lower inside of the statue, but that itself was pretty cool...
After the statue we took the ferry over to Ellis Island. This is where most early immigrants had to pass through to get access to the United States. It is pretty much a museum that shows you the history and the process around passing immigration in the early 20th century. Ellis Island was a little disappointing (I think), but it was worth a short visit.
The rest of the early afternoon we spent walking around the southern part of Manhattan. We walked through Soho without even knowing we walked through it - and we ate lunch in Greenwich Village. You get a little jaded from walking around all day - so we took the subway back to our "cozy" neighbourhood. Even though our "hood" isn't all that nice we drove down to another part of Brooklyn that was a lot nicer - we even found a good sheesha (water pipe) where we got to see the last 20 minutes of the Chelsea-Newcastle game... Good fun.
We finished the day off by letting Simon beat us (or closer to kill us) in bowling and a decent work out at our gym..
Night y'all
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