Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

WTC Memorial Center

Today I went to WTC Memorial center. Which was very interesting but at the same time very tragic. The proposed memorial is not yet completed but what they plan to turn it into is beautiful. I saw where the towers used to stand and the construction site in it's place. The WTC center is filled with debris and derby from the aftermath of 9/11. Airplane doors, burnt flags, cards, pictures, cell phones...The hundreds of missing posters put up after the attack, audio excerpts from firefighters, police, civilians, and many more. The many, many photos of all the people who lost their lives that day.

There were twisted beams of metal, paper cranes, support from everywhere over the world. The whole time I think how could one human justify doing anything this horrific to many, many innocent people? Also they have cards written from people all over the world that visit the museum expressing there feelings.It's hard to describe the atmosphere of the WTC Center, and it's content's. To get a better understanding you would have to see it for yourself. Eventually I will put up all my photo's a few of which show what the area looks like today.

Battery Park, Seaport, Brooklyn Bridge
Battery Park is right by the water so it was quite a nice few. It was also right across from Ellis Island, and the statue of Liberty. But I unfortunately I missed the ferry. Another day. Right along the water they had a memorial which was visual stunning. So since I missed the ferry I continued to walk along the water and noticed the Brooklyn bridge so headed in that direction. Took some pics of the above ground metro system which I thought looked really neat. So eventually we come to the Sea Port which had a whole bunch of stuff shops, food ect.

Walked around for awhile admired the old style boats, and some other big ones. Got a quick hot-dog and eventually made my way to the top which gave me a good view of the Brooklyn bridge. Took a alot of pics of that and just took in the sights. Skyline made for some great pics.

Subway
At first I was a little apprehensive to take the subway but all was well. It's surprising how much there is right underneath the city. There is a ton of people taking the subways that come every few min. It's quite easy to navigate, some trains have a nifty electronic sign thingy some don't. And was serenaded with a lovely song by a local bum "Jessie's Girl". Got off somewhere around times square and got a few little things. Day just winded down from there

Tomorrow
Central Park, Museum of Natural History, and Trump Tower!

*This of a random collection of thoughts. Some things I may have forgotten to add. This is more of a rough collection of thoughts on the day than a through journal. I have been writing down some keywords, and places to remind me to include them. I will probably re-write this every now and then until it is too my pleasing.