911 Memorial and Statue of Liberty

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MATTHEW

We were back on the bus tours again, except with a different tour guide this time, whose name was Sean. He took us to see the 911 Memorial. The waterfalls sits where the twin towers once stood and they're huge. There were too many names in the memorial. We saw a tree which oddly enough survived the attack, of course it had the old top part of it blown off, but it started to re-sprouted so now you can see a line where the old part is and the new part.

In New York they have so many taxis including water taxis - which are boats. We caught one of those and on the way to catch the boat we saw a navy aircraft carrier which was pretty cool. The water taxis took us out near the Statue of Liberty where we could actually see her and she's extremely large and has a tablet saying July 4, which is the day of independence for America.

A couple of hours later a few of the Australians from our group caught the train to Yankee Stadium and we watched the Yankees play the Rays. The Rays beat the Yankees and we saw an into the grandstand home run.

CHRIS

Today we went to the 911 memorial where the Twin Towers fell. After that we went on a water taxi and we went around the statue of liberty and stopped on the other side of New York. After that we took the bus back to a hotel and then got a train to the baseball game where we saw the Rays vs the New York Yankees. The Rays won 4 to 1 and they got all of their runs in the last innings.
CHRIS

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Photos

Statue of Liberty up close
It's such a big statue. Over one third of American's can trace their ancestory back to Ellis Island which is just next door.

Aircraft Carrier
This ship on the Hudson River and airplanes parked on it!

Statue of Liberty
On a boat heading over to take a closer look at her

911 Memorial
There were two of these "reflective ponds" Both were built on the footprints of the two original towers. The names of the people killed were etched around the edge

New York Yankees
We watched a game where the NY Yankees were playing. They lost.... One of the players gets paid $32 million a year.

Comments

[virginia irvine]

You guys seem to be having the most amazing time. We love reading what you have been doing. Every couple of days we check in to catch up with what you are up to and where you are! The photos have been fabulous - and we are all a little envious!!!! The class really looks forward to knowing what your next adventure has been! (I have never known the class to be so quiet and engaged!) I passed on your blog for Ms Minton to check out and she is madly trying to get everyones e-mail addresses working so blogs can be used more easily. Keep up the great blogging. Your work is entsoertaining, (and educational)! Take care Virginia and 4I