NYC Day #2 Monday

On day #2 we were up bright and early. We ate breakfast at the hotel. There were ALOT of people speaking french. We caught the subway, walked past Battery Park, and caught the ferry to see the Statue of Liberty. I was so excited!

I was a little worried about the weather, but it turned out to be perfect. The cloudiness kept it cool. I got a little queasy on the ferry.

Notice our coordinated clothing! Perfect for scrapbooking a trip to the Statue of Liberty. Now we won't clash with my stickers! LOL!

I had my picture taken with a replica of her toes. Dr. Hubby mentioned something about me having "toe envy." My injured toe was holding up fine.

This is what has washed up on shore near the statue. Most of the sides just had tons of seawood on the shores. We had lunch at the Liberty Cafe and it was YUMMY!

Being the nerds that we are...we took our local newspaper with us to NYC. There is a section in our paper called "Beacon on the Road." Everyone takes the paper on vacation, takes their picture holding the paper, and then sends the pic to the paper to be published. This is the first time we have done it. Due to the cloudiness my camera would not take a real clear photo....so we had the professional take one to send to the paper. It cost $17.95 plus tax. If I had my Nikon D40 already we could have avoided this extra cost. HINT! HINT!

Next we headed to Ground Zero. It wasn't much to look at. Just alot of black plastic and fences to keep tourists out. I look forward to seeing the new buildings. I found it very irritating that there were people there selling pictures and books. They didn't have stands set up, they were just carrying them around pestering you to buy them. It also annoyed me that they ALL appeared to be foreigners (most looked like they could have been Bin Laden's relatives). It repulsed me.

I absolutely LOVED Canal Street. I had always heard that ChinaTown was fun, but it was beyond. The little chinese women come up to you and say, "You want purse...Coach...Gucci...Chanel." HeeHee! That is too funny. We bought my Father In Law a Rolex! It came straight out of a man's pocket. I just know that this was his day job and he did drive-by shootings at night. He was very thug. Scary! At a certain point in the evening all kinds of people brought out suitcases and briefcases filled with the faux stuff. I guess the police had left town! It was cool. We ate chinese at Shanghai Joe's, but it was not in ChinaTown. We were warned several times that the chicken might not be chicken in most ChinaTown restaurants. Ewww!!!

On our way home we walked down 5th Avenue. I saw steam coming up through those little round holes in the road. I saw a HUGE cockroach on the sidewalk. I ate hot nuts from a vendor cart. We were also surprised by LOTS of suitcases and briefcases set up there! It was like 10 PM and 5th Avenue was lined with them. This is when I saw a Louis Vuitton...picked it up...fell in love...put it down...regretted it later...decided to go back to ChinaTown later in the week to buy one!