1st day in New York

Today we started out with eating breakfast at the hotel. It is not amazing but not bad either. We can choose between cereal, bagels, yoghurt, bananas, and toasted bread. There are not that many things to put on the bread though. We slept already at 21 because we were so tired but then we woke up pretty fit at 7:20 without any alarm waking us up.

Then we finally made it to the Statue of Liberty! This photo was taken before we took the fairy to Liberty Island and Ellis Island. Within four hours we got to see the great woman perfectly – and we realized that she was slightly smaller on the vertical site and pretty much larger on the horizontal site than we´d expected – and we sailed on to Ellis Island, where the arrival hall for immigrants was placed. It was an interesting museum with cool exhibits!..





And the toilets… well, if you look at Isse, you might notice that a dwarf would be able to limbo under the door – very relaxing, when you´re sitting there doing your stuff, right? It must be a prejudice that Americans like things bigger –because these doors are not covering it all, at all! Anyway, moments like this really make your day, when you need a laugh!..

 And you most certainly do need a laugh, when the weather news says 50 % chance of rain, and it then ends up raining the entire day! This picture was taken at the 9/11 Memorial – a park you get to visit for free to reflect over the non-existing limits of man or to grief – 3000 people died September 9th 2001…

The memorial was designed like this. Grey waterfalls where the water ends in a black hole, right where the World Trade Center twin towers used to be – sad and beautiful at the same time. All the names of the many people who died in the terror attack stand on the frame of the square – they will never be forgotten…

 

And the food today… not really anything to write home about! American food is more expensive than we thought it would be. And at the menu price wasn´t the most important piece of information – the amount of calories was. Strange country…