Statue of Liberty.....

Working hard on Junior Ranger badges.

The boys thought this looked like a pirate boat.

Ellis Island with Jersey City behind it.

Jacob making his video.

The view looking straight up from the top of the pedestal....it made me dizzy!!

On the ferry.

The old torch.

Resting on the cornerstone of the Pedestal. France gave us the statue but we had to pay for the pedestal. They had to do some creative thinking to get the money. They sold bonds and school kids had money drives.

Taking in the view of New York City.

Italian Ice...so good after such a hot day!


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We got up this morning and drove to Jersey City to take a ferry to Ellis Island and Liberty Island. We got off at Ellis Island first. We got the Junior Ranger books and got to work. This book was one of the hardest we have done so far. But it really taught us a lot! We got back on the ferry and went to Liberty Island. When we got close to the statue people started hooting and clapping. It was beautiful!!!! We got the Junior Ranger books for here too but the badge was the same so we decided to just bring those books home to do later. I had already bought our tickets a couple of months ago...even then they didn't have any crown tickets left. They only let 300 people a day go up to the crown. But we did get tickets to go inside the pedestal, and we got to walk up over 200 stairs. It was so worth it though, at the top we could see up inside the statue. we weren't too disappointed about the crown because there was a heat advisory for inside the statue. It was so hot today!!! We all took lots of pictures and Jacob made a couple of videos. Then we got back on the ferry to go back to our car. On the walk back we found a street vendor selling Italian lemon ices.....we had to get some!!! We drove to Tarrytown New York to spend the night. This was the home of Washington Irving and were he got his inspiration for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." We got in kind of late so we didn't get to drive down to Sleepy Hollow or see Irving's house. We were so tired we didn't even get out the computer so I didn't blog. The Statue of Liberty was yesterday :)