After a very bumpy night, we arrived to NYC about on time, and then it got bolloxed up. We watched as they tied us off and there were 6 workers to tie off each line. Then they had trouble getting the gangway connected and had to resort to a temporary one. All of this made us over an hour late for our tours.
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How many men does it take to tie a line? If you're in NYC, that would be six. Most every other place we visited did it with 2 or 3.
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Our tour today was to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. We rode a bus down to Battery Park with a commentary from our guide along the way. Unfortunately, the microphone died a few blocks into it, so he had to shout for a while until the driver sort of jerry-rigged something that was marginally better. There were only 24 of us on this bus, so it wasn't too hard to hear him. Then we caught the boat to Liberty Island where there is a nice museum and a 10 minute film about the building of the statue.
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| Not a photo angle you see often. |
We boarded the boat again which took us to Ellis Island where we had 2 hours to explore. They have a wonderful museum that really makes the experience very real.
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| The reception hall |
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The Navigator looks a little menacing from this angle.
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We got back to the ship just before 5:00 and finished packing before having a farewell dinner with Sarah, Patrick and Lois. Carl had dinner upstairs because he wanted to say goodbye to some of the waiters there that he's come to know well. Luggage goes outside the door and off to bed.
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