NYC - day 3: Statue of Liberty, Financial District, SoHo...
Still tired from the night before, we left quite early on Friday morning. This time, our New York guides were Urs and "Crispus". For the first time, we had the chance to enjoy Urs' unique and life-threatening style of driving a car which at the same time turned out to be a crash course of English swear words... :) - unfortunately we can't post the video we shot with Urs yelling: "Film those morons in front of us and me when I hit them!" and then Crispus: "The morons, the morons, they are everywhere!"...
After a short stop because of Crispus' urgent need of toothpaste and a bathroom, we arrived safely near the Battery Park where we took the ferry to the Statue of Liberty. It was another warm and sunny day and to make sure we'd survive the ferry ride, we bought two bottles of water. Already during the security check (worse than at the airport...), Urs started complaining about the special bottle tops (as they say designed by the government...). Instead of making drinking easier, we discovered that they can easily be used as "water pistols" to sprinkle each other with small amounts of water. This discovery led to the fact that we were all more or less soaked before we even reached the Statue (Urs looked at "Jessica" and asked "Fiona" : "Your friend is a mess - what did you do to her?!?!?!", referring to her wet shirt...). Ever since 9/11, visitors are not allowed inside the Statue anymore, so we decided to stay on the ferry and go on to Ellis Island. Out of the blue, Urs (now called "Wuuulfie"<>
Our way then led us into the Financial District: We walked down Wall Street before we found a nice Pub to have lunch. It's extremely impressive and at the same time somewhat intimidating to be surrounded by skyscrapers. Allegedly, in some of the streets the sun does not "rise" before 10 o'clock in the morning, leaving the streets in night-like darkness! What struck us as weird was that, at night, you can see lights in windows that are as far up as normally only stars or airplanes...
After lunch, we got back to the car and drove to the South Street Seaport. We walked over the pier and through the little shopping mall next to it, just to get an impression. Time was running out so we had to continue our way towards SoHo. This time, we spent quite a while strolling along the streets, looking into little shops, breathing in the atmosphere with all the street vendors (selling everything from TV series scripts to earrings...) - before we had to rush back to the parking lot! Out of the car windows, we saw the Federal and State Courts (beautiful old buildings!), some other interesting buildings and also several departments of the NYU - the more I think about it, the more tempting it seems to spend one semester studying here... :)
After a short stop because of Crispus' urgent need of toothpaste and a bathroom, we arrived safely near the Battery Park where we took the ferry to the Statue of Liberty. It was another warm and sunny day and to make sure we'd survive the ferry ride, we bought two bottles of water. Already during the security check (worse than at the airport...), Urs started complaining about the special bottle tops (as they say designed by the government...). Instead of making drinking easier, we discovered that they can easily be used as "water pistols" to sprinkle each other with small amounts of water. This discovery led to the fact that we were all more or less soaked before we even reached the Statue (Urs looked at "Jessica" and asked "Fiona" : "Your friend is a mess - what did you do to her?!?!?!", referring to her wet shirt...). Ever since 9/11, visitors are not allowed inside the Statue anymore, so we decided to stay on the ferry and go on to Ellis Island. Out of the blue, Urs (now called "Wuuulfie"<>
Our way then led us into the Financial District: We walked down Wall Street before we found a nice Pub to have lunch. It's extremely impressive and at the same time somewhat intimidating to be surrounded by skyscrapers. Allegedly, in some of the streets the sun does not "rise" before 10 o'clock in the morning, leaving the streets in night-like darkness! What struck us as weird was that, at night, you can see lights in windows that are as far up as normally only stars or airplanes...
After lunch, we got back to the car and drove to the South Street Seaport. We walked over the pier and through the little shopping mall next to it, just to get an impression. Time was running out so we had to continue our way towards SoHo. This time, we spent quite a while strolling along the streets, looking into little shops, breathing in the atmosphere with all the street vendors (selling everything from TV series scripts to earrings...) - before we had to rush back to the parking lot! Out of the car windows, we saw the Federal and State Courts (beautiful old buildings!), some other interesting buildings and also several departments of the NYU - the more I think about it, the more tempting it seems to spend one semester studying here... :)
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