After yesterday's long walk we've decided today to invest in a metro card, so we set off for the subway. Now, we can master the machine combinations for what we want but persuading the machine to give us 4 cards that we've paid for is another matter!! Much stress later we eventually manage it and start our New York subway adventure, first stop Whitehall and the Staten Island Ferry.
The ferry embarkation terminus is crowded but once we all get on the ferry, obviously it's a quiet time. The commute is 25 minutes with plenty of opportunities for pictures of the Statue of Liberty and the Manhatten skyline but through dirty windows. The Staten Island terminus looms and we all disembark. My only request is to walk along the esplanade and see the 9/11 monument, the boy's agree, to humour me but when we reach the monument everyone is blown away by it. The memorial is in the form of a visual postcard from the people lost in 9/11 being sent on the wind to the site of the World Trade Centre. The personal messages attached to some of the plaques remind us that these are individuals and are so poignant.
The journey back to Manhatten is quieter on the ferry allowing more photo's, this time outside, so no dirty windows. We travel via the subway to the Brooklyn side of Brooklyn Bridge to walk across it. Now how can something so big be so difficult to find, especially as Dave and I managed to find it on Saturday!! It takes us 45 minutes to find the right entrance but our perseverance is worth it, the views of Manhatten and the Statue of Liberty are great.
For the evening we meet up with an old friend who works here now as a football coach and tour his facility. What a great place, and follow it with a great evening with him and some of his colleagues. This is our kind of evening a time spent with old friends while meeting new ones.
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