SmileyJohn n Jesse: Day 2

We woke up and went to Nice Green Bo, (formerly known as New Green Bo) for ChinaBrunch.




Then we headed downtown to the Statue of Liberty...on the way passing by "The Sphere", which used to stand between the World Trade Towers and was damaged during 9/11, but managed to be recovered semi-intact. It's a sad and beautiful thing, and it overlooks the Freedom Tower.




We boarded the Ferry to the Statue of Liberty, only to find out that the Statue itself was closed for renovations.

Smiley really wanted to climb up into her "hat".

:-(



A flock of idiot seagulls that had failed to fly south for the winter led us out to the statue. (What happens, by the way, to all the dumbass birds that don't fly south for the winter?...They freeze and die right?)



It was chilly, but a beautiful beautiful day.








Once on the statue grounds, tourist after tourist wanted to take photos with us.






We LOVES Lady Liberty and her hat!



Once back on the mainland, we headed over to the 9/11 memorial.



It's gorgeous and peaceful and really really sad.









Loves the Freedom Tower.



LOVES the memorial fountains.



There's also a museum with pictures and quotes and videos and tributes. We closed the place down.

Oh here's what The Sphere used to look like when it stood between the towers...



There were recovered pieces of debris...



And a wall full of the "Missing" posters that went up immediately after the towers fell.







And just walls of pictures of all the victims.




They did a really great job with it. And I think it's something everyone should check out. And to all those people roll their eyes at mentions of 9/11 or who are like, "That's so depressing. Why would I ever want to do that?" (People do say idiotic things like that.) I say, "Fools. These people senselessly lost their LIVES...it could have happened to anyone...the least you can do is go and pay tribute and remember them and be grateful for your own life..."






Anyway. It was closing time before we got to explore the whole museum. I want to go back and check out the rest of it.

But clearly after all this, we needed to do something a little bit uplifting. So we went home and watched Bridesmaids.



Then we went out and met up with Kate and Will and Eric.



Kate LOVES giants!






And then...it SNOWED!





We LOVES snow!!!