Big Bite from the Big Apple - Day 2

First thought: Here we go !!!!

Early morning birds, off to Central Park, beautiful day, its sunny not really sooooo warm, we are still wearing gloves.

We were staying on 105th EAST, between 1st and 2nd so we had quite a journey to go to anywhere. So we walked and walked and well, walked all the way to Madison and 96th and had a nice little breakfast...
on the way out we saw the "west side" and we both laughed, both because its the "West Side Story" and because of Teddy West Side.



Anyhow we went on Central Park while far away it was all snowy, its a dirty snow "hasn't snowed in a while", stepped in poop, but we walked by the museums (Guggenheim and the legendary MET) all the way to 50th... and the driver told us exactly where to get off and where to walk ...

Because we were so tired and we didn't have any map at hand we stopped the first bus going downtown

We took the bus all the way to the the 9/11 memorial, in memory of the 3000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.  The Memorial’s twin reflecting pools are each nearly an acre in size and feature the largest manmade waterfalls in the North America. The pools sit within the footprints where the Twin Towers once stood. The names of every person who died in the 2001 and 1993 attacks are inscribed into bronze panels edging the Memorial pools, a powerful reminder of the largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on American soil and the greatest single loss of rescue personnel in American history.

From there we walked to the Brooklyn Bridge, or at least we intended to... because all of a sudden there was like a huge invasion of man all dressed in black and long beards. And initially i thought there must be a catch, but there must have been a gathering of Orthodox Judaism probably because of the protest.
They were everywhere and so bad in numbers that we took a left where we had to take a right and back we were on Holland Tunnel route when we wanted to go to the other site... so we went and walked a LOT all the way to the Brooklyn Bridge and over all the way to the other side.

Last thing we did was to go to Grand Central so see a bit at night....

By that time we are sooo tired, we just wanted to go back ...

a good rest was in order....