Time for some updating...

I've gotten a little lazy about keeping up the blog. In part because we've settled into a routine with school and so haven't been having as many adventures. But in part just because I got lazy. You pick how much each part might have contributed. :)

September 10th we went into NYC to the Statue of Liberty and Battery Park. There had been some credible threats made since it was the 10th Anniversary of the terrorists attacks so security was pretty intense. We had pre-purchased our tickets for the tour long ago and hadn't thought of the date, but we weren't too concerned about anything.

Poor Travis had woke up that morning covered in hives. We aren't sure what caused it. possibly a reaction to a medication he was on, but never found out for sure. He was pretty miserable, but still was a good sport about our trip.

We drove down to Battery Park, and the traffic wasn't a problem at all, but there were police everywhere. You couldn't hardly turn around without bumping into security personnel, in fact I think there was more security that tourists. We were okay with that.

It was a gorgeous day and it was so neat to go into the statue, see how it was made, and enjoy the view. What an amazing part of American history. It was also hard to imagine standing there watching the towers burn. It was a bitter sweet day for us. We actually got help up for about 20 minutes or so while they had a 'security situation' at the base of the statue. We never did find out what it was about. Wasn't scary really, but did make us realize the threats are real.

My camera got left in the car, hopefully the boys still have their pictures on their phones and I can upload them later.

After arriving back in Battery Park, we stopped at the Field of Flags tribute. They had one flag for each person who lost their lives on September 11 in the attacks. It was hard to imagine so many lives gone so quickly. They also have a statue there that was at the World Trade Center site and is now in Battery Park. Neat memorial there. We didn't walk over to Ground Zero, in part because of the security masses, and in part because Travis just wasn't feeling well at all.