New York - Day 4 - Statue of Liberty & the 9/11 Museum
We got up around 6am to get ready for our 10am Statue of Liberty cruise. We had to take a couple of subway trains to Bowling Green so we left extra time incase something went wrong - it did! Our metro passes wouldn't scan in the turnstiles or the credit checker, but when we tried the turnstiles again it did let us through. Not sure what was wrong with them.
It was quite a gloomy day, raining when we woke up and so cold we needed to wear our winter coats, the worst weather we had our entire trip actually! But that always happens when you prebook something in advance, doesn't it?
There was a short queue to get through the first set of security before we got straight onto the ferry. Around 10-15min later the ferry left and we were at the Statue of Liberty shortly after.
We started our trip by doing around the exhibits/museum upstairs before heading up the steps to the pedestal - we left it too late to get crown tickets, but I can't imagine the view from the crown being much different from the pedestal anyway considering everything you're looking at is so far away.
When we were walking through the museum there was a guided group in front of us so we heard a few interesting things that weren't documented in the exhibit as they went along, but we passed them after a few exhibits and continued on ourselves.
After taking some photographs from the pedestal we wandered around back on the ground and took more photographs as we went before making our way back to the ferry terminal and heading back to the city.
Once we made it back we headed up Wall Street and got some lunch before heading on to the 9/11 museum.
We had to queue for around half an hour to buy tickets and then get in. Once we were in we had to go through another set of airport security (the third of the day as you have to go through security before going into the Statue of Liberty too!) and check in one of our bags into the coat room before we could finally go around the museum.
The 9/11 museum is huge, it's probably the biggest museum i've ever been to and it took a good few hours to get around it - and we didn't even see everything. It's a very moving museum, it feels a lot more real considering the majority of visitors were alive when it happened and know whats going on in the World today. I'm not going to say too much about it, but you definitely need to pay this museum and the memorial sites a visit if you're ever in the New York City area.
On our way up towards Times Square we passed this homeless man, obviously if you've ever visited New York you'll know you pass a lot of homeless people in the streets, but this one was different. This one had a ginger kitten named Butters. His sign read that he puts his cat first, and as we passed he was feeding Butters. We gave him a few dollars and I quickly snapped a picture as we passed by. We did bump into them again the next night in a different street.
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