Walking Fiend.

Today we walked, A LOT! We walked first to battery park, which contrary to popular belief, is NOT a park that runs on batteries! We then took a ferry over to Ellis Island to the Immigration Museum. Our scholar, Ed, did an amazing job leading us through the process that immigrants went through to get into the US. Then, we went into a theater where a park ranger/stand-up-comedian told us stories about seeing Ice-T at the arthritis doctors and exposing that George Burns used to tell immigrants "Your dances are no good here." in order to sell children dance lessons. We then watched a lovely film and headed to the exhibits for a few hours before returning back to NYC. I decided I would work to reenact, tableau style, the various monuments I saw. So, here are photos if me as Lady Liberty as well as George Washington. The originals are in the background so that you can compare. After what seemed to be a million miles of walking, which was, in reality about 3 miles, we saw the 911 Memorial. It wasn't finished, but it was still nice. It reminded me a bit of Charybdis in The Odyssey, except a bit calmer. Later, I had some authentic NY pizza and some cheesecake from Roxy's.

In front of the Federal Building.  Ironically, this is where the 99% of Occupy Wall Street came to avoid arrest the very next day.  Today is was relatively calm.

I didn't have a torch.  Or a crown, but had fun anyway.