New York

Last sunday Sarah, Sam's sister, came up and we all went to New York City. We drove to Staten Island and took the free ferry to New York. The cool thing about that ferry is that it passes right by the statue of liberty, so we go to see it without paying for it! always great! After we got off the ferry we headed over to Ground Zero to see what is left of the twin towers. There was nothing but a huge gaping hole with fences around it to keep the public out. They are going to build a memorial, a square fountain that goes down in tiers.
After Ground Zero we had lunch and ate true New York Slices (awesome pizza!). We meandered around a little bit trying to figure out what to do. Eventually we decided to go to Central Park. To our surprise we drove right into a Puerto Rico Day parade. There were thousand of people lining the streets in red blue and white waiving flags and singing spanish music, it was interesting....Sarah kept getting hit on by greasy Puerto Rican men, lol poor sarah!
We finally made our way into Central park and were able to find refuge from the parade. We went and saw the castle in the middle of central park that was built in the 1800's as a bird observatory. I have to admit, it was pretty cool! I'm a sucker for castles, im still a little girl inside dreaming of living in a castle!
We went through the Shakespeare Gardens which was a little disappointing. Then we took a nap on the grass. After that we got lost in the parade again.
We decided to take the subway to times square. we got lost, took the wrong train and took forever to get there; you have to have one thing go wrong in a day right?
I loved times square! I wanted to set up a lawn chair in the middle of the road and just look at everything! There was so much to see! I've never seen so many build boards in my life! It was so colorful and bright. There was so much to do there to!
After that we were tired, so we took the subway to the ferry and then took the ferry back to Staten Island, waving the Statue of Liberty good-bye. There is so much to do in New York it is over whelming, but totally worth it! I was glad I was able to go back and experience New York once again.