Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Days 4 & 5 - NYC to Plymouth Rock

We started on the Staten Island Ferry to get a view of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and the city. Sophie the packmule.

It was a clear day, so Lady Liberty was beautiful.

For scale, the twin towers were about twice as high as the dark, square building in the center of this picure - from the ferry.




We found the financial district - great balls!


The front of the bull was ok, too.


On the subway again...


Probably the best thing we saw in NYC, Dana Barrett's apartment. No marshmallow mess, but you could still feel the evil of Zool. Thank you Ghostbusters - America's heroes.


The Dakota, where John Lennon was murdered - smile kids!


Jake is really into Natural History and the Museum was right up his alley. This ancient statue was his favorite exhibit.



After leaving New York, we headed through CT with a stop in New Haven to see Yale University. It has beautiful old buildings dating back to the 1700's, a creepy old Skull & Bones building and very clean bathrooms. Go Bulldogs!


No pictures of Rhode Island, its just too small. Weird. Almost the last stop of the day, Plymouth Rock. Beautiful site, cool rock, lousy chowda.
This is the rock. Checkered history, broken in half and put back together, moved and moved again; easily the most exciting rock ever. Pilgrims were awesome, too.
Off to Boston for more sites and best of all - Fenway!

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