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Caught up here now too.
I love NYC in Times Square at night. It was so fun and bright and great for pictures....would I want to live in NYC...heck no, but for a visit it is fun.
The subway system is so confusing to me. Luckily my Uncle Geoff goes quite a bit and he was able to lead us to which train we needed.
We had to buy a certain amount on our subway cards and they make it so you have extra left. It's so dumb. My friend says it's because they know they people will have 50-75 cents left on each on and most tourist will not even care....well I showed them!!! I gave them to my NYC friend to use up. hahahaha.
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Living the Dream and remembering the Bagman UPDATED 5/5
Wow, Mrs. Unhelpful sounds like a perfect name for her. For future trips, you may want to know that you can share one subway pass between the two of you in NYC. I always find that much easier to do.
I loved the elevator ride at One World Observatory! I just thought it was so well done and wish I could have done it again.
That is one heck of a Disney store! I love that the peas were displayed right above the Eeyores. Our favorites! Bummer you missed Cirque but sounds like you made the right decision.
Oh it was. I just needed an early night to recover.
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An adventurous start to the day with McD and the subway. Wow that's kinda cool that they have a movie of sorts while you're riding the elevator. But I can see how that would totally mess with my DH and his motion sickness.
I think a lot of people might get motion sick, now you say that. Perhaps they should have a warning about that?
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Actually, he would never even go up there due to fear of heights..... Bummer you were clouded in, but at least you saw all the displays and such.
My mom and I visited the World Trade center in June of 2001. We purchased the tacky photo, and indeed the quality wasn't stellar. But now I'm so glad we have it.
Oh gosh, completely. We went up the World Trade Center on our honeymoon. It was Mark's first time, but I think it was my second or third time and it was weather just like we had on this day - low cloud. I literally took one photo and that was it, the cloud closed in. I remember Mark saying "why have we come here?" and a couple of years later, he said to me "I'm so glad we did go there".
Caught up here now too.
I love NYC in Times Square at night. It was so fun and bright and great for pictures....would I want to live in NYC...heck no, but for a visit it is fun.
Oh my goodness, I am so with you about that!
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The subway system is so confusing to me. Luckily my Uncle Geoff goes quite a bit and he was able to lead us to which train we needed.
We had to buy a certain amount on our subway cards and they make it so you have extra left. It's so dumb. My friend says it's because they know they people will have 50-75 cents left on each on and most tourist will not even care....well I showed them!!! I gave them to my NYC friend to use up. hahahaha.
Wow, Mrs. Unhelpful sounds like a perfect name for her. For future trips, you may want to know that you can share one subway pass between the two of you in NYC. I always find that much easier to do.
We did find that out later in the day...
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I loved the elevator ride at One World Observatory! I just thought it was so well done and wish I could have done it again.
I'd definitely do it again... and hopefully see the view. However, I don't think NYC is high on our list of places to go back to. It's just been there, done most of that.
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We made our way out of the One World Observatory and headed over to the 9/11 memorial.
I have seen lots of photos of this, and I honestly didn’t think from the photos that it looked to be the size of the footprint of one of the towers. I figured it would look much bigger in reality, but genuinely it didn’t. It looked absolutely tiny to me.
It was beautifully done, such a simple idea, although I have no idea there was a huge amount of thought went into it. I genuinely feel if I knew a victim, I’d be pleased with the memorial that’s been made in their name. I was surprised to only see a few of these…
I thought there would be a lot more. Something else I was surprised by, and not in a good way, was the behaviour of some of the other people there, talking selfies and photos of each other. I just feel, and maybe I’m old fashioned this way, but there are some places I don’t think this is appropriate. I was just relieved no-one asked me to take their photo, as I would’ve refused, politely, and explained my reasons.
We headed over to the 9/11 museum, as it was coming up to 10:00am, the time we were due to go in. Already I was glad we’d pre-purchased our tickets, as there was a line, although not that long, for anyone who hadn’t. They were advertising that tickets were still available for today, so naively, I thought that perhaps it wouldn’t be that busy…
We headed inside, and through what I felt was a very lax security check, especially given what this remembers. I noticed the security guard didn’t properly check what was in our bags, which did concern me.
The first thing you see are these…
We were later to learn from talking to a member of staff that apparently about a week after 9/11 happened, there were discussions about how to commemorate what happened and those who had died, and there was already talk of a museum at that early stage. They started to mark a number of things to save for a possible museum, after getting information from curators at museums around America. That’s why if you look carefully in the shots, you can see “save” written on in yellow paint…
Next: understanding the enormity of what you’re seeing
I have to agree with you about some people's behavior at places place that. The people that died there deserve some respect. The memorial isn't quite what I expected. Thanks you the pictures. Sorry about the zero visiblity.
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I have to agree with you about some people's behavior at places place that. The people that died there deserve some respect. The memorial isn't quite what I expected. Thanks you the pictures. Sorry about the zero visiblity.
Liz
I know what you mean about the memorial. We'd seen lots of photos, so we had a good idea of what to expect, but even so, it still surprised me in some way.
The memorial looks beautiful. Last time I was at Ground Zero was 2 months after the tragedy. Quite a change from then.
Oh my goodness. I really cannot even begin to imagine what that was like, even after having been to the museum and seen the images etc. I bet that's something that will stay with you forever.
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It's uncanny the photos you captured! Peter Gay, Kenneth Waldie, and David Kovalcin all worked for my company (although at different locations, so I didn't know them). Andrew Charles Curry Green was in my high school graduating class.
Too bad you were just in the clouds for ONe WTC Observatory and couldn't see a thing. Other than that it looks like you enjoyed your time in the building with the history and info.
It does amaze me with some people and the selfies at the reflection pool, which is a memorial. Looks like a good start to your time here and looking forward to the rest of it. I have yet to visit this museum, but plan too.
I was here about a month or so after 9/11 for a U2 concert that night and seeing all of the destruction up close and the smell of the air from the still smoldering buildings as well as the dust from the pulverized buildings overwhelmed me. Just seeing it first hand was just something.
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I love that the peas were displayed right above the Eeyores. Our favorites! Bummer you missed Cirque but sounds like you made the right decision.
Wow that's kinda cool that they have a movie of sorts while you're riding the elevator. But I can see how that would totally mess with my DH and his motion sickness.
Bummer you were clouded in, but at least you saw all the displays and such. 
Just seeing it first hand was just something.
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