Saturday, Everywhere

Saturday we started the day by going to Liberty Park, took a ferry to Ellis Island, and then to see the Statue of Liberty! It was cold but an awesome day!!!

Statue of Liberty fact: The entire structure inside was engineered by the guy who did the Eiffel tower (Gustave Eiffel). The surrounding “skin” of the statue is made from copper. The skin is just TWO PENNIES THICK. That’s it! They had a replica of the statue’s face and foot in the museum at the bottom.

They don’t allow people to go up inside the statue, but you can walk all around the top of the base, which is still pretty high up and has a great view!

We took another ferry over to Manhattan to Battery Park, where Dave’s mom bought me my very first fake designer’s bag (Kate Spade rip-off). Ha! There were people selling all sorts of things there, just like the items you can find being sold on the streets: watches, sunglasses, DVDs of movies that haven’t been out in theaters yet, artists and photographers selling their work, etc.

After walking all throughout the financial area, we came upon an old bar nestled in between two newer buildings: Frauncis’ Tavern. This tavern is where George Washington himself held his beer high and made his farewell speech to his officers after defeating the British in the Revolutionary War. And that’s just a piece of the history of this place! You can find more here .


We later met up with Dave’s Aunt and Uncle (his mom’s sister and brother-in-law), in China Town and ate a GREAT Italian meal at Casa Bella in Little Italy.

I really need to go back and visit China Town again very soon. It’s so colorful! Plus, there are giant, open stores with wall-to-wall seafood (literally)…fresh fish and lots of unidentified things stacked up everywhere on ice…I’ve been dying to make a huge pot of seafood bouillabaisse too.