Last Saturday we (me, Babe, Buddy, Babe's mom, my parents, my sister, her fiance & Ella) went to NYC to visit the Statue of Liberty! We reserved tickets about 6 months ago to go up to the crown and everything. The day and weather was gorgeous - we couldn't of asked for better weather!!!
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| Our whole Statue of Liberty gang! |
Visiting the Statue is seriously an all day event. We got on the bus to NYC at 6:30am, got there a little before 10am. Headed to the subway and took that to Staten Island. We then grabbed lunch before getting ready to head to the Statue. I think we had to go through 2 or 3 security points, that are just like airport security checks, before we were cleared to go up the 354 steps to the crown.
Taking the boat to liberty island was a lot of fun.
I was in awe as the statue kept getting bigger and bigger. It's so beautiful.
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| Babe checking out the map in the subway! |
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| LUNCH! |
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| Checking out the views! |
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| Isn't she beautiful?! |
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| Dad admiring the Liberty! |
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| A part of the old torch! |
We all climbed the 354 steps to the crown. Crazy steps. They started out normal, but got more narrow and then it was just one big spiral staircase to the top. I thought going down the steps was harder than going up...my legs were so shaky...LOL!!!
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| Here we go...20 down... |
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| Running up the stairs! Crazies!!! |
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| Still smiling :) |
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| About to head up the spiral steps! |
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| There's Babe!!! |
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| Momma & I |
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| Buddy feeling the thickness of the crown! |
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| WE MADE IT!!! |
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| On the way back down. |
The views from all levels of the Liberty were simply amazing.
I couldn't stop taking pictures!
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| From the Crown! |
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| From the Crown! |
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| NYC skyline |
Here we all are having fun in front of the Statue :)
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| Strong Buddy, holding the Statue! |
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| God Bless America! |
On our way back to NYC from Liberty Island, we stopped at Ellis Island. We all found our last names on the wall...
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| Ella passed out on PopPop! |
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| Ellis Island! |
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| Daddy checking out our names! |
Then we headed back. We stopped for dinner. Most of the group wanted pizza...so we stopped at a random pizza place and filled our tummies. Then headed to get the bus back home.
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| On the subway headed back! |
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| PIZZA! |
It was such a fun day and
I'm so glad I've now been to the Statue of Liberty!
Only took me 30 years...better later than never ;)
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