Monday May 21

Another fun day here in New York!

Back at home, it was a rough night for Dad last night.

Port was sad.....missing mom...

So he slept in there with Dad.

Then Cassi came down at about 2, I think he said, because of her shoulder hurting so bad.

Then, it was bout that time that Mater started barking again, and Dad found a skunk in the trap!

No fox, but once less skunk is good anyway.

He will try again tonight for the fox.

The kids went to school good today.

But Dad had to pick Cassi up early, maybe try and get her in to the doc sooner.

But he got an appt. for her tomorrow morning.

Hopefully they can do something for her.....

I am hoping tonight goes better for everyone there.

We had a busy day.

I started at the gym.....ran 5 miles on the treadmill.

Then once we were both ready, we headed down for breakfast and then headed to the 9/11 memorial.

It was so amazing and quite an emotional experience.

All those feelings I remember having that day.

Seeing the actual things that happened.....the actual force that it took to bend these huge beams like they were make of rubber!

And then reading everything about the first responders......knowing that without a doubt, Brent would go in to rescue, just like those guys did.

We spent 4 hours in there.

There was just so much to see!!!!!

We saw the actual footings of the towers.

The museum is actually under the 'reflecting absence' pools.

I didn't realize that!

It was so amazing to see the work that went in to the recovery and cleanup and rebuilding.

It was a beautiful experience.

We ate lunch there by the pools.

We had snatched some PB and Jelly from breakfast and brought some bread with us and made sandwiches for lunch :)

Then we went to One World Trade Center Observatory.

Which is the tallest building in the western hemisphere.

It was pretty amazing.

You could see out to everything across the city.

So cool!

After we finally found our way out of there........we had to go through PATH.....which was an amazing structure that was mostly underground.

The white columns were very modern and futuristic.

We were a bit lost for a bit....but eventually found ourselves in the right direction.

We went and saw the St Paul and Trinity church.

Trinity church is where Hamilton and his wife are buried......so we got to see their headstones.

Afterwards, we were so tired......so we took the long subway ride back to the hotel.

We grabbed some pizza on the way home and then ate it in the Hotel.

Man oh man....I am sure tired!!!!

Tomorrow we are going to the MET museums and then in the evening we see Hamilton!!!!!!

So excited!

It will probably be a late night, so I may not write.......

But I will catch up, I am sure :)

 Statue of Liberty in the distance

See the pools at the bottom of the picture........where the twin towers used to be.

PATH building/structure

Hamilton grave

 Mural on the side of the fire station.

Cool tiles down in the Subway