Friday, November 20- Pics from New York

I had every intention of catching up with the blog when I got home but it seems that I spent time catching up with other things and then my computer crashed and I had to take it in to get a new internal hard drive.  Any who, here is the rest of our trip in a photo essay.  Tuesday we were up bright and early, Sharon's favorite time of the day and we were on the first bus to downtown Manhattan and Battery Park.  Today we saw the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, learned that you can't get pepperoni on Kosher pizza, visited the 9/11 Museum and went to the top of the One World Tower.  12 hours and 7 miles later we crashed in our room!

Securing our seats on the Gray Line bus

The Empire State building in the distance

We passed it but never made it inside the store

The weather could not have been better.

Battery Park

The dock heading towards the ferry

Lady Liberty

The Great Hall where all the emigrants would wait to be checked into the country. It involved a cursory physical and an interview. John Bichler arrived here in 1930, he worked various jobs in NYC, one being an elevator operator, before moving to New Jersey where he used his trade as a machinist to work at Ingersoll Rand as well as farming.

The stairs the emigrants would descend, on the right to New York/New Jersey, the left to all other states and the center steps led to the hospital for quarantine or perhaps to be sent back to Europe.

The NYC skyline from the ferry, you can see the One World Tower in the distance.

The 9/11 Memorial

Inside the 9/11 Museum, it is massive and well worth the time it takes to visit

The flag that flew over the destroyed towers during the recovery. It has since visited every state where it was repaired with flags from that state. Very symbolic of how the country came together following 9/11.

A make-shift memorial from post 9/11 that had been covered with photos and mementos.

The entrance to the One World Tower

Our timing could not have been better.  When we got to the top the sun was just beginning to set.  We could see the Statue of Liberty in the distance.

Looking towards Upper Manhattan

Riding the bus back in NYC traffic. Something about the lights kept my adrenaline pumping the entire time I was in NYC