My alarm went off at 10:30am today but I reset it for 11am. I hate not getting enough sleep. Our tickets for the statue of liberty were for noon. We got up and dressed and ready to go in time to make our reservation, but not in time to eat anything. We would just have to eat later.Thankfully Michael drove down from Boston so we have the convenience of his car. We were leaving from the Jersey side of the National Park, so we didn’t have to pay any really expensive tolls. The tolls to cross the NY bridges are insane. We paid $8 one way to cross last night to get to the 24 hour diner, luckily we found a way back that avoided the bridge. That was more luck than brains though, since Michael’s GPS is our guide.
We found the National Park and took the ferry across to Ellis Island. On Ellis Island we toured the building and museum for three hours. It was really interesting to see where 12 million immigrants passed through into our country, and the process they had to go through. It pretty much would have sucked. A two week sea voyage, followed by being stuck on ferries for hours without food or water until there was finally room for you on Ellis island. Then waiting in lines for hours on end to get examined by doctors and interrogated by customs officials. Unlucky people had to undergo additional medical exams, potential quarantine/hospitalization, and could ultimately end up being deported. Or if the customs officials didn’t like your answers to their questions, you had to wait around for a special inquiry which would also determine your fate. We didn’t get to read absolutely every sign in the museum, because it was time to move on to the statue of liberty, but I really enjoyed the visit.
Liberty island was much less interesting than Ellis Island. There were plenty of photo opportunities but not as much interesting history. Of course, we didn’t get to even go into the Pedestal cause we got there too late. Oops, hehehe. Guess we enjoyed Ellis a little bit too much. Oh well. We were too late in buying tickets to be able to visit the crown of the statue anyway (purchased them 2 months in advance instead of 3) which would be kinda neat, so I guess we’ll just have to come back another time. Statue of Liberty: to be continued, some day...
We made it back to the car around 6pm and set off to take care of some errands. I needed to get a card reader for my camera’s memory card since I forgot mine, and Davin needed a screw driver to install his slim CD-ROM into his computer, and he also needed wire to attempt to fix his sunglasses. Long story...
Errands complete we found a delicious Thai/Chinese Restaurant which was reasonably priced and had a super delicious dinner. I had a thai iced tea. I looove my thai iced tea. :) After that we went back to the hotel and that’s where I am now writing about today. Now that I’m done, we are gonna plan what we’re going to do tomorrow and then get some sleep. Til tomorrow!
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