New York June 22

For our last day in New York I had a couple of things left on my "to do" list that I had to get done. First was to ride the subway. We went to the World Trade Center to see them working on the memorial for the twin towers. Everything was fenced off so we couldn't see to much but we still got a couple of pictures. We walked all around Battery Park, took a picture of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. We also happened to be there at just the right time to see 5 black men with red and white tights on putting on an acrobatic show mixed with a lot of comedy. They were really good at what they did and even used 5 tourist that were watching as part of their last act. He did a flip over the five guys bent over. It was pretty amazing. After coming back to Time Square on the subway we accomplished the second item on my "to do" list. We stopped at a street vendor and had a hot dog! For 2 hot dogs and 2 bottled waters it was 7 dollars. It really wasn't that great, not a lot of flavor but it was fun to do anyway. We found a Ripley's Believe it or Not and decided to check it out. It had some pretty weird stuff in it. We shopped around Time Square for a little while and then went to Bubba Gumps for dinner. The hot dog was really small and it was about 3 hours earlier. We literally walked all day long except for the few minutes we were on the subway. I have blisters on both my baby toes but it was worth it. We had much better weather today, no rain!!! It was overcast part of the day but we actually saw sunshine. We are ready to leave NY and have decided to go to Washington DC and stay in Virginia the next 2 nights.