The Big Apple Day #2

On the planned agenda for Thursday morning was a trip to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island! Unfortunately when this trip was planned 8 months prior no one anticipated this to be the most rainy day of our visit!

On the ferry heading to the Liberty Island, notice how wet we got on our walk from the subway to the ferry despite our umbrellas and rain jackets. Cara stayed nice and dry in her stroller with the rain cover on it

The view from the ferry looking out. The awful weather conditions dull our view!

Standing on the ground looking up to Lady Liberty!

Cara chose a Statue of LIberty sucker for her souvenir

Usually looking at the city from the island is a breathtaking view, but not on this rainy yucky day, if you look real hard you can see the outlines of the building


The itinerary for the afternoon included walking tours of Battery Park and the World Trade Center site as well as a bus ride through Soho, Greenwich Village, and then shopping in Chinatown! The four of us opted out of these plans and took the subway back uptown to our hotel to dry out!


The rain subsided in the evening just in time for our trip to Little Italy for dinner!

Little Italy!

We enjoyed a lovely dinner at Sal Anthony's and then headed back to the hotel for the night! The big group was headed to New Jersey to get checked into the hotel and we would all meet again in the morning at the Empire State Building!