Notebook and Pen

A so thought well planned day today started off by throwing the schedule overboard when our visit to the Statue of Liberty took four hours in total, making the rest of the day a bit of a challenge to get through. I

'd like to say it took four hours due to how interesting the island is to visit, in actual fact tickets to enter the statue's crown were sold out until November and so we could only admire the statue from the base of the island, and spent the majority of the time waiting for boats. Luckily though I was wearing my foam statue crown to keep the sun off me while everyone else remained hot and jealous.

After finally arriving back in Manhattan we headed to our second attraction: Bodies, The Exhibit. This goes under a different name in the UK but having missed the chance to see in Manchester and London we decided free entry was a good excuse to go now, that plus the fact that either there are a scary number of these exhibits around the country or even scarier, it has been following us to almost every city since San Diego.

As Bodies was located at South St Seaport we decided to take one of the harbour boat tours and get some sunset photos of the skyline, plus more overpriced drinks aboard a Clipper. A Clipper with a motor that is, though the sails were put up for a completely windless trip for show anyway.

A few attempts of parking the boat (is the term 'parking' still used for boats?) later, though you'd think this might be a lot easier than normal with a motor, we went back to the hostel for Ali & Matt's last night here and spent the night enjoying another classic 18'' NY pizza, this time accompanied by much cheaper beer from the shop on the main road.