Taking a Liberty

Sunday morning in New York what do you do? Take the bus to Battery Park and go to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Having picked up our tickets and queued to get through the obligatory security screening we get on the ferry to Liberty Island we are warned that the statue itself is closed as they are refurbishing the interior and installing wheelchair friendly lifts but is still good to get close up to the statue and learn something about it. While we are eating lunch we spot Suzanne and friends from Derby this was really fortunate we knew that they would be in New York at the same time as us but hadn’t yet arranged to meet up so we were able to catch up on news from home and share a little time before we went on our ways. After Liberty Island the ferry stops at Ellis Island which used to be the immigration clearing station this is now a well presented museum which was of great interest to Esme as she is covering this at school. Back on the mainland we finished the circular bus tour and having got off in Times Square, closest stop to the hotel the girls got to make a fuss of the police horses which appear to be there only as a tourist attraction.

 

On our way to Liberty Island

 

 

Friends from home.

 

Main immigration hall on Ellis Island

 

Fussing the police horses