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Dean & Deluca for breakfast! |
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Pistachio donut and a Chocolate Black Out Donut from the Donut Plant at Dean & Deluca |
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Breakfast! |
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Staten Island Ferry |
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Reagan |
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The New York City skyline |
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the Statue of Liberty |
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the new Towers under construction |
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the Brooklyn Bridge |
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on our way to the 911 Memorial Site |
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Staring down into the "black hole" of the fountain is very sobering and quite emotional |
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the names of those lost are inscribed along the edges of both fountains |
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the Living Tree |
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looking through the glass into the unfinished memorial museum |
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a reflection |
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cousins |
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i think Axelle misses her own little brother....lol |
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St. Paul's Cathedral, undamaged from the 911 attack |
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beds were laid out during the days following the attack for relief workers and firefighters |
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St. Paul's Cathedral |
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the Wall Street Bull |
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Lombardi's Pizza, reported to be the first pizza in New York City |
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The temperature made a BIG turn today and our wonderful temps went from upper 70's into the 90's! We went to breakfast today at Dean & Deluca which is just on the corner. I was so excited to see that Dean & Deluca serves donuts from The Donut Factory, my favorite donut place in NYC!! I was in donut heaven!! After breakfast we took the subway to lower manhattan to get on the Staten Island Ferry. We had read that this would be the best way to see the Statue of Liberty for FREE and they were right! Riding the ferry over and back took awhile this morning, but at least we weren't standing in line in the hot sun for hours just to pay for a ride! The ride was very pleasant and the view of NYC pretty cool as we came back into port. The 911 Memorial Fountains have now opened and we reserved a spot to go take a look. The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of
remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror
attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near
Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed
in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993. There is a tremendous amount of security that you go through just to get in, but it was so worth waiting. The Memorial’s twin reflecting pools are each nearly an acre in size and
feature the largest man made waterfalls in the North America. The pools
sit within the footprints where the Twin Towers once stood. The names of every person who died in the 2001 and 1993 attacks are
inscribed into bronze panels edging the Memorial pools. I found it to be a very emotional place to stand and remember. Within the deep pools is another square hole that you can't see the bottom of while looking into it. Looking into that space is where my tears came from. It's like looking into infinity. The Survivor Tree stands here hung with origami cranes made by local school children. It's a tree that barely survived the disaster, but it was removed and nurtured and then brought back where it has thrived. There are chinese folded paper birds hanging from it that were made by local schoolchildren. It's a really neat bright spot in the middle of a sobering place. We went into St. Paul's Cathedral to see the memorial to the firefighters. By this time, we were pretty hungry and Lombardi's pizza was fairly close by.
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