9-11 Memorial

Saturday morning was our first scheduled event. We had tickets to see the World Trade Center 9-11 Memorial at 11 AM. We walked down to the subway entrance and had some breakfast at Starbucks and then took the subway down to the World Trade Center. It was a very moving place and it is quite a moving memorial for such a tragic event. I have to admit that most of us were very emotional. After the memorial we went to Wall Street and looked around there. We saw the New York Stock Exchange, the Trump building, and Brandon got a picture of himself in front of the bull. We grabbed a bite to eat and then took the ferry to Staten Island so that we could pass by the Statue of Liberty. It was getting kind of late at night and we were losing our light but we could still see it pretty well. It was a lot of fun and the ferry was free. After we got off the ferry we took another subway ride to Greenwich Village and walked around Greenwich Village and Soho. And of course I managed to stop in and see the Soho Apple Store. We stopped at Washington Square Park and looked at the Washington Arch which is quite amazing. There was also a piano player in front of the arch out in the cold weather with a big grand piano playing music with people lying underneath listening - it was quite the spectacle. We stopped one more time in Grand Central Station for dinner, it was so packed it was difficult to eat there but we managed to get a good old fashioned New York hotdog.