New York City Spring Break

Figuring out the subway system wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. True, everything is properly labeled and I had a map of the entire system, but I still retain a certain amount of pride for effortlessly traveling about town. We bought a $7 "fun pass" that gave us unlimited rides for the day, which was nice seeing as how we would be riding all day and a single pass cost $2 per ride. Our subway adventure would begin with our first interaction with NY's finest crazy subway people. The ride from Penn Station to the Liberty Ferry was quite long, probably 20 minutes with stops, so we had plenty of time to be scared by this Mexican guy spitting on people and yelling out El Diablo. He didn't yell in English, which made us only wonder what he was saying as he glared at us from across the train. I knew right there that today would be an interesting day.

One of the things that I love about NYC is that they have managed to maintain some of the old buildings while at the same time adding modern ones. Sure it looks kind of weird, but I would rather see it like this than to see these buildings demolished. That just wouldn't be right.

Another thing about NYC is that they are monuments, statues, and all sorts of historical stuff everywhere. I think this was a memorial to those who have served in all of the armed forces and gave their lives defending this country.

We didn't have to wait long to get this party started. They only allow a certain amount of people on the island at a time, and the way that they control it is buy staggering people by using small ferry boats and limiting capacity. We bought our tickets right away and only had to wait about 10 minutes before we went through security and boarded the ferry. Liberty Island seemed like it was so far away, but we were able to keep our excitement level held in check long enough to not go crazy. Soon we would be hanging out with our Nation's most famous landmark.

It took all of the zoom power in my camera for me to get a close but grainy picture of the statue. At this point I already started thinking that I was taking way too many pointless pictures, but as you'll see on the next 10 pages, I didn't really care that I was wasting memory space.