Today was hectic, frenetic, mad and tiring!
I was up early! Although, after spending ANOTHER night in the ruck sack daytime could not come early enough!
We left just after 8am and headed straight to 'Planet Hollywood (which is an odd thing to find in NYC!) to get their 'New York Passes.' again there was a mistake! They only got FOUR - again! So after getting this we were off to find the NY Tour Bus that would take us down to Battery Park. That's at the very bottom tip of Manhatten and TOO far for them to walk let alone a very small bear in a kilt! (Although the Naked Cowboy in Times Square seems to manage!!)
On the way own we saw the Empire State (wow!!), Macy's, Ground Zero, The Flat Iron building and 2 or 3 frustrated fire engines trying to snake their way through the traffic to get to whatever was on fire or where a cat was stuck up a tree! (Stupid cats!!)
The tour guide asked us where we were from! Andrew said, 'Scotland!'
'Scotland!' he exclaimed, 'The home of SUSAN BOYLE!' So now we know what we are famous for! (Note to self - NO more saying we are Scottish!!!!!)
After quite a drive, and zig zagging back and fore across the blocks, we made it to Battery Park! They decided it was breakfast time! We found a vendor in the park and decided to try pretzels! And guess what.......they are HUGE! They are not like the ones we get at New Years at home! These were pretzels on steroids!!
Anyway, once we had this we set off to go to see Miss Liberty! We got our tickets at Castle Clinton and AVOIDED the queue as we had our passes! But then we HIT the real queue! It was huge! Or as Joey's agent in Friends would say "HUUUUGE."
Then I got really worried! We had to go through security! It was worse than the airport! No bottles, no food, everything out of pockets, no belts and then everything was x-rayed (boy am I getting fed up being x-rayed as I now seem to be glowing!!) and they went through the metal detectors! Anyway, after queueing AGAIN we made it on to the ferry! Herded on like sheep (maaaaaa!) we went upstairs and enjoyed the trip to Liberty Island! Everyone was fiddling, taking photos or jostling about to get the best pitch to do so! As we got closer she got bigger and bigger!
We got off and the first thing we did was get an ice-cream and some water! It was hot! Perhaps I should have shaved before leaving home! Sheep have the right idea - lose the coat in the summer!
We walked round the island and took photos and video from all angles! Everybody had the same idea! They were all posing, pointing and snapping away!
Andrew asked a guy if he wanted a picture of him and his wife ( not Andrew and the man's wife, silly!!) together! He said that would be good! Of course he had to have a Scottish accent! They were from Dundee!!
After going right round the island we joined another HUUUGE queue to get back on the ferry! We were going to go to Ellis Island but they all decided they had been there long enough and we would remain on the ferry back to Manhatten! The views of the skyline were awesome!
Statue of Liberty - TICK!!
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