Oct 18
New York City - Emily's first visit
In combination with our visit to Jason at college for Family Weekend (which coincided with Emily's October Break, hurrah!!!), and a business trip for David to NYC, we were able to show Emily a few of New York City's sights for the first time. We took the Staten Island Ferry (isn't it amazing that it's FREE to ride that back and forth to/from Manhattan as much as you like???) which goes right by the Statue of Liberty. Emily likes boats (so do I). The lady's still holding her torch out. Always makes me think of the Rich Mullins song, "Land of my Sojourn."
And the lady in the harbor she still holds her torch
Out to those huddled masses who are yearning for freedom that still eludes them
The immigant's children see their brightest dreams shattered
Here on the New Jersey shoreline in the greed and the glitter of those
High-tech casinos, but some mendicants wander off into a cathedral
And they stoop in the silence and there their prayers are still whispered
And I'll sing their song, and I'll sing their song
In the land of my sojourn
Nobody tells you when you get born here
How much you'll come to love it
And how you'll never belong here so I'll
Call you my country and I'll be lonely for my home
And I wish that I could take you there with me
New York on the right, New Jersey on the left.
I think my favorite thing was the view of the city at dusk from the "Top of the Rock" - 70 floors up on the GE Building roof, at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. It's better than going up the Empire State Building, because, well, you can SEE the Empire State Building from there :-) And, well, I had already been up the ESB (or else I would probably have wanted to do that anyway). I like views and being high up and pretty lights. And my husband's tech skills that can get a camera to take pictures in any light. Go, David (I lack this skill).
