Le Weekend

(Its Fronch because not many people seem to speak English here and I don't know Spanish, Polish or Lithuanian.)

Pete and I have made the goal to use each weekend we are here to maximum potential exploring and experiencing New York--we don't want to go home and say "Oh, we should have done that but we just never got to it."

So, we spent our first weekend in New York visiting the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.




I've visited Lady Liberty in Paris (and in Las Vegas) but somehow its different in New York. It's more meaningful to look at her face and think about the millions of people whose dreams of finally seeing her standing in the bay were the only thing that kept them from loosing their minds entirely as they sailed for months on filthy, lice infested ships from the only land and family they had ever known.


She is beautiful. I've never realized how beautiful she really is.



As Pete, Amelia and I were waiting in line to board the ferry to the island we were absorbed by a tour group of people from India. I think they may have taken more photos of Amelia throughout the day than they did of the statue. Among the tour group was a man who is a practicing ophthalmologist back in India, and he actually gave Amelia a thirty second eye exam on the spot. He then patted Pete's shoulder and told him she would be alright. That was good to hear.

We were unable to get tickets to go inside the statue as they were sold out, but I wasn't overly upset about that because strollers aren't allowed in the statue and there are over 300 stairs inside. A recipe for nothing good.

Luckily, Pete and I planned this trip with some friends who are also here interning this summer, so we actually got a couple family pics.









This last one I took myself. I had to, it's tradition.



I took photos of Pete and me kissing in front of every tourist attraction we visited in Ireland and England--although I felt a bit silly doing that in front of Buckingham Palace. What would Her Majesty think if she saw such displays of propinquity outside her front door??