More of New York

Thursday 13th March



Today it was an early rise again. We were going on touristy bus trips today to see more of the city so we walked down 57th Street to get to 8th Avenue where the bus headquarters was located. You know, I always looked at maps of New York but never really understood how the city worked. Once you are here, it all makes total sense.

Anyway, we got to the bus terminal and took the "Downtown loop" first. This bus took us through Greenwich Village, China Town, Little Italy etc. We decided to hop off the bus at the Ground Zero site. It was quite sobering to see the enourmous hole in the ground, and the tributes to the many brave firefighters that died in the tragedy.



From there we walked to Battery Park on our way to see the Statue of Liberty. We did find out that you could take the Staten Island Ferry which goes past the statue for free, so of course that was our option. I was quite surprised at how small the statue was, I thought she would be much larger, but she was very beautiful. We arrived at Staten Island and got straight back on the ferry to go back to Manhattan.

We then boarded the tour bus again and continued the downtown tour. When we arrived at South Street Seaport, we changed tour buses and took the Brooklyn tour. We went across the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn. We couldn't take the Brooklyn Bridge as the height of the bridge was lower than the double-decker bus that we were on. Besides that, we had a great view of the Brooklyn Bridge from where we were, so much better photo ops!



In the evening we headed back down to Times Square, looking for pizza for dinner. Had to try some authentic NY pizza! Now for those that know, one of the main things I wanted to do in NY was to hug a NY cop. We were walking down 7th Avenue, and there were two of them standing there watching the foot traffic. I got some dutch courage and asked them if I could have a photo with them. They were both so sweet and obliging, I even got to wear a police hat! Then not only did I hug one NY cop, I got to hug both of them! Now I really love NY cops!!



We did end up getting our pizza. Huge slices of pepperoni which was thin but really pretty good. We headed back to the hotel exhausted once again from a very long, full day.

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