riding stuff

well we went into New York City and saw stuff! NYC was our most expensive day yet at something like 65 dollars in transportation fees. we payed to park at the airport in jersey, took a bus to a train station and on the way out had to get a subway to the train, back to the bus and to our car.

anyway back to New York!

we walked down to ground zero. it was really powerful seeing where it all went down.



we kept going till we got to battery park where we could see the statue of liberty and the island. seeing the statue was kinda weird - its something that only exists in movies to me.

we started walking back north and found some awesome churches and the New York stock exchange!

Thomas and i used a little team work to boost him up onto the bull and Austin was our trigger man. all the little people enjoyed the show and started taking their own pictures on the bull instead of other places.




somewhere just south of central park we hear this guy walk around the back of a truck and shout "free ice coffees!" being who we are we raced across the street through crossing traffic to get our hands on some free goodness! we get over there and we each take one and the guy says "take take i want you to take!" so we take more and he says "you got pockets and a backpack!" we take more. Austin came around the corner with even more in his hands... yeah we have had those for treats lately :)



at some point we walked past what looked like a wedding with people dressed up, a band and everything. the only thing that was weird was that they had adds for sun crystals or some such thing all over the place. they were giving out free tea and free cookies made with some natural sweetener called sun crystals. you know us and free go well together :)

we also talked to some girl who had candy corn to attract people to sign up for a health club. yeah i know.

i was actually really impressed with how nice people were in NYC. the city was also clean and the street signs were well labeled.

we walked up to the MET art museum which was AWESOME! we saw a 6 shot revolver attached to a sword. we saw samurai armor, knight armor, photography, paintings and more. we really needed more time but one day was all we got :(

we walked through times square at night and across the Brooklyn bridge which were super neat to see.

we got back to the car way late and went to a wal-mart to sleep. in the morning a rent-a-cop informed us that we could be jailed for up to 30 days for trespassing ... guess walmarts in jersey are not as nice as ones in other states.

we busted out Connecticut and rode island on less than a gas tank. we saw Yale on our way out to Plymouth rock which was awesome! we got back on the road headed toward Boston. we started looking for a place to stay but the wal-marts said we coulnt sleep there as did the rest stops ... stupid Massachusetts. eventually we found a "road side parking" place where we spent the night in the car.

today we saw boston and more or less ran along the freedom trail. we saw the old north church, Paul Reviers houseand a bunch of other cool places like where the boston tea party took place. it was raining and we got fairly wet going from one place to another. we also found the USS Constitution which fought more than 30 engagements and is undefeated. we got on a WWII ship and i looked at the torpedo transmissions which were cool.

we ran over to the bunker hill museum and then ran up the 294 steps to the top of the 221 foot granite obelisk.

Thomas's dad is coming to visit and so we get a hotel and showers! and yes we will put up pictures of todays adventures tomorrow.