New York, NY (9th July 2013)

We arrived in NYC in the morning.  First thing we did was to leave our bags at a luggage storage place, as we would not have been able to take them with us the whole day. We then headed to lower Manhattan, to the battery park and Lady Liberty. We wanted to walk all the way from the bus station, to see a part of Manhattan we haven't before, but we soon had to give up the plan and take the subway (for the sake of our hurting feet, legs, backs...). It just was too long!! 

We enjoyed walking along the wharf and strolling through the park, looking for squirrels.

Lady Liberty

We then walked to the new One World Trade Center. We were not able to see the 9/11 Memorial as it was all surrounded by protections (because of street works going on). We should have had a pre-ordered ticket to enter the memorial but we didn't, as we did not know there was one required. We visited the Trinity Church (constructed in 1698) and St. Paul's Chapel instead. The latter one was very interesting to visit as during the 9/11 attack it was used as a place of rest and refuge for the recovery workers at the WTC site. It contains a lot of information about that terrible day, with statement of witnesses and general description of how things happened. At some point it gave you goose bumps!

One World Trade Center and St.Paul's Chapel on the left

After lower Manhattan we took a metro ride up to Central Park. The park is very nice, with lots of trees , little lakes, squirrels...After our visit someone told us that the park is entirely artificially made.

While in Central Park the battery of our camera went off, so we had to take pictures with our cell phones (both of them, of course, already with dying batteries). 

Trinity Church

We spent our evening sitting on the stairs upon the Ticket Ticket counter (discounted tickets for Broadway and Off Broadway musicals) in Times Square while is was getting darker and the lights getting more and more shiny. We were so tired we did not actively do something, we just sat there with some street food enjoying the surrounding attractive view of Times Square.

After midnight we finally could board on our bus to Boston. We were somehow sad to have spent only one day in NYC, but at the same time happy to rest. Also we were looking forward to meet our friends for lunch in Boston the following day.