Statue Of Liberty & Ellis Island on NYE

The weather was fabulous today. FABULOUS!!! Our normal temperature is somewhere around 38 degrees or so & there is usually a wind chill. Today it was in the 50's. 50's!!!! So off we went to the Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island. It was a good day.

We hopped on the train & went for it. Thank goodness I had the forethought to buy tickets before we got there. The line was enormous for those folks that bought them at Castle Clinton instead.

  

On our way to the the line we stopped & saw the memorial for the armed forces.

This guy was AWESOME!! He & his friend were just playing music for the line dwellers waiting to get on the boat. He was singing & making jokes. Samantha insisted on a picture. And sure enough this guy was quite fond of the Flat family.

Samantha got a hold of my computer at some point & discovered photobombing. Since then.... well.....

And just because we thought she should have at least one picture with her hostess.

And then we arrived at the statue.

  

We checked out the sights & saw the people involved in helping to make the statue. We even met Mr. Bartholdi himself! Can you imagine? I asked him what his secret to staying so young was.

When we sat down to have lunch we realized that we'd have to fend off the birds. Wow were they obnoxious!

And we saw the test torch from the last restoration that Lady Liberty went through.

Then we were off to Ellis Island.

  

We visited the wall to see our relatives that made their way to the US through Ellis Island. It was great to see where we came from.

We also saw the original wall for Fort Gibson.

  

And Samantha thought it would be fun to see if she could really feel what it would be like to have been through Ellis Island and being held in detention (jail). Not cool Samantha. You're not supposed to touch the exhibits.