Following Washington DC, on my school trip, we took a 3 hour train journey to New York. New York was so different to DC. For a starter it was so much busier and the atmosphere was less relaxed. However it wasn't quite how I had imagined it, yes the roads were busy but it wasn't so busy that you had to walk through cars to cross the road. All the yellow taxis had dents in which made me feel a little worried about the ability of their driving but I survived a trip in one so I'm sure it was fine.
We went up the Empire State Building at night. The view was stunning and the picture below doesnt quite bring that out but you can see, ish.
We got on a boat to visit Ellis Island, an island where immigrants who were migrating would pass through to sign in. However on the way there we also passed Liberty island to see the Statue of Liberty.
"Liberty will not perish"
Another interesting thing we saw was the 9/11 memorial. I was stunned in to silence as I learnt about what happened and how. The picture below is the space where a tall building use to stand. It is now a waterfall with names of people who died in this terrorist attack around it. Of course there are two as two building fell but they are so big that they cannot fit in to one picture.
We also visited times square, shopped, got a picture with a policeman and just had general fun seeing the monuments and memorials.
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