Day 5 New York City

This day started out by trying to find the right subway to get downtown towards the Statue of Liberty. On the way, a fire truck came racing by which Makenna loved! Daddy took a pic of it for her.

We found the subway and it was easier to navigate than I thought it would be. The girls loved it!! Definitely the easiest way to travel with them.

After going through the line of security to get on the ferry, we were finally on our way to see the Statue of Liberty.

Little did we know that we would have another line to stand in to actually go up in it!! Not fun! It was so long and this time we had to do the same thing along with an air test to make sure you don't have chemicals on you! I understand being careful but this was ridiculous. I have no idea why they didn't just do the chemical test before you got on the ferry! Such a waste of time!

This is my happy baby on my back while we were waiting in the never ending line. She took a nice nap while waiting, thank goodness!

Finally inside the Statue!!!

This is looking up inside of her. I'm glad that we didn't do the crown. That was a lot of stairs!!

Once we got up there, we only stayed like five minutes!!! We were all a little scared of the heights. I don't know if I'm getting older or if it's because I have kids but I can't stand being up that high anymore!! It was pretty crazy.

View of the city from the statue.

Mom and Dad!!! They wouldn't let us take their pic very often!!

Me and Trav. Not a great pic. We are both squinting into the sun.

We then took the ferry to Ellis Island. It was so neat to see where they checked in all the immigrants! This is inside the building.

Cuteness on the ferry back.

More cuteness.

Afterwards, we were all starving and we wanted some real New York pizza and NOT McDonalds. We were kind of wandering a little bit and not really going anywhere so I took matters into my hands and started asking people. (I have no idea why I'm the only one that will talk to strangers but it's the only way to find stuff out;) I asked this one guy and he just shrugged but then I found a cop and decided to ask him. He pointed to this place that was right by us and said it was great. I guess this is a huge cop hangout because there were tons of cops here. They had a dining area upstairs and there were tons up there. We felt very safe. Then all those cops left and a whole new group came in. It was great pizza!!! So yummy. I'm glad I asked!!!

After we ate, we walked down to Wall Street! It truly looks like a wall (of big buildings)!!

Next stop was the Trinity church. Alexander Hamilton (my mom's possible great, great uncle) is buried here and it's such a cool looking church in the middle of all these buildings. I think this is also the church that a lot of people ran to on 9/11.

Fire Fighters memorial

Trade center site. It was amazing to see in person.

A sculpture made from scraps of the Trade Center.

Looking at over the Hudson. When you turn around, you can see where the Trade Center was and it truly looks empty. I took a pic because it looked so empty but it doesn't show up in the pic. So sad.

As we were coming back across the Trade Center back to the subway, there was a fire station that was right across the street that had their doors up. It was fire station #10 and they had a memorial in their station that some people were already looking at. This fire fighter was sitting on the edge of the truck and asked Makenna if she wanted to sit in it. She was so excited and I think this will be the highlight of her trip. She will always remember it. I will remember the hunky fire fighter. He even turned on the lights and sirens for her and gave her some stickers. It was great.

The side of the fire truck.

After coming back on the subway, we got to finally relax. Our feet hurt so bad and were blistering. This is how the girls enjoyed their evening. We couldn't get them away from the window.