First full day in NYC. We started out from the hotel walking to Chelsea's Market. It's a cool shopping place with fun little shops. Took the Subway down to the World Trade Center. We got our pass and went through security to get to the pools. Very pretty and neat to see. We then walked down to catch the Staten Island Ferry to ride around the harbor and see the Statue of Liberty. It was a ton of fun riding! We ended up going to the other side over by Brooklyn and switching boats. It was pretty interesting to think that this is how these guys commute to work in the city!
Since we were down as far as we could we started walking back up. We headed up on the first side of the city to get a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge and then walked inland to Wall Street. Amazing!!! We could see something going on so I asked a guy there what it was and he told us it Occupy Wall Street. Of course we had to walk down there. It was pretty interesting to see I do have to say. The people just sat there with signs and every once in awhile someone would say something. Like a quote or they'd say things about what they were protesting. Police just stood there along with the spectators. People like us taking pictures.
After Wall Street we walked back up to the WTC and then jumped on a Subway. Riding the Subway was pretty strange. One thing about this city is it seems like no one talks to anyone. There was one nice lady that helped make sure which Subway to take and let us know we were the next exit as she got off at her stop. Not the most friendly city.
After getting up by the hotel again we went to eat in a little place that had a few different options for Korean food. It was interesting to eat since it was where the local Korean's were eating.
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