New York 11 Dec

New York 11 Dec - I woke up around 9am and making my move at 10am after grabbing 3 slices of yesterday's pizza (still good). It was a sunny day and quite hot for a walk to the subway. The station is 71st Forest Hills and it is on E line. There is a lot of lines here at subway depending on where u go so u must pay attention if not u can get easily get lost down here.

Today i'm planning going to Statue of Liberty where u can stopped at the last staton of E line which is the WOrld Trade Center cum Chambers St. It will be 20 minutes walk to the Ferry Station so i decided to switch lane to Line 1 to South Ferry. What would u know? When i drop into the train i met with two student girls, Janet from Bogota, Colombia and Ayumi from Osaka, Japan who are going to the same place. They both studying at Florida and are on vacation here in New York. I asked them if they don't mind me joining them so at least i got friends to take pics with. Yahoo!!

We arrived at the Battery Park where u need to buy the ferry ticket of USD12 to Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. If u want audio assistance then u'll need to add USD10 on top of it. The ferry consists of 3 decks and can hold up to 300 people a trip. The highest deck is where u could see the view and take pictures but at this point of time it is cold up there.

We arrived at the Statue and took some pictures but we are not permitted to climb to the stat because we need to make reservation 2 days before to do so. After that we are on the Ellis Island where this is the place for immigrants check in during earlier days. If u could see from my pics, they have a lot sub division of rooms to process immigrants before they can get into US. Registry room, medical room, legal room and to my surprise mental room where they are puzzles for u to solve. They are also buildings for people to sleep and detain if u are inflict by disease. Here too u could check ur ancestor history same like in the movie Hitch (Will Smith).

After that, we decided to go to Wall Street where we could find famous buildings from the Financial District. I took the pic of Trump building and few other monuments for memoir. We then go uptown to see the Ground Zero where the WTC building collapse from 9/11 incident. It's quite dark at that point (5pm) and we could here people doing construction for the new site to be rebuild. There is a board of names people died that day and there is a path station for u to go to New Jersey.

Next, i followed the girls to do some window shopping at nearby mall before i decided to call it the day to go and see Bal and Yati at 29th St and 5th Av for dinner. They took me to Olive Garden, one of the finest Italian restaurant here in New York and very much enjoy the food especially the appetizer and the desert , Ice-cream chocolate gelano..so creamy..hhhmmm

We then went back home and while i lying on the couch i was straight went to sleep....zzzzz....snoring kepenatan...