We started out the day with our trip to Good Morning America & then had breakfast at a little random place near Times Square. It was a delicious BLT & hash brown for breakfast... It was raining a decent amount that day so our plans to go to The Empire State Building were going to be postponed till the next day.
So we decided to go ahead and go to the 9/11 Memorial.
Now, I don't know if it is just me or what...but I always thought NYC..well I always thought that everything was close together. The Empire State Building is a 15 minute walk from Times Square. Central Park is a 30 minute walk from The Empire State Building. Rockefeller Center is a 10 minute walk from Times Square. And that all is walking at a decently fast pace. So when we sat down figuring out how we were going to get to the 9/11 Memorial...we realized that we would need to take the subway. The walk would be an hour & 20 minutes. No way!
Now I have never been on the subway before. I've never even been in a taxi. Where I live is basically like Mayberry. So NYC was different. Obviously. I have heard all of the awful things about the subway...the rats, the smell, the dirt.... & it honestly was not that bad at all. It did smell slightly like a bathroom where we first got on the subway. Other than that first little incident...there was nothing weird about it. There was a man...either dead or sleeping...in the subway.
When we finally made it to the footprints/memorial of 9/11...it was raining, extremely foggy...we couldn't even see the top of the new One World Trade Center. & the other new World Trade Center was under construction.
Once you get inside the museum it's very dim & quiet. In certain parts of the museum you could hear interviews of people talking about that day. People that were there or people that had loved ones in the twin towers or planes.
The picture below part of one of the trade centers - exactly where the plane hit.
We were underneath where the towers stood.
The antenna to one of the towers.
The "survivor steps".
The last column left standing after both towers had fallen.
When we walked out of the building it was still raining-harder than it was before. It was really sad but it kind of made what happened more "real". Being there & seeing all of these different things. After it was over I was like "....Okay we need to go do something happy now!".
It is a place I highly recommend visiting if you're going to NYC. I definitely plan on going again whenever we go back.
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