ALMOST Statue of Liberty Adventure

Thursday, Todd informed me that he would be getting off early from work the next day. We decided it would be fun to go to the Statue of Liberty. We kind of just assumed it would be an easy thing to do, but it turned out to be a tad more difficult. We should’ve known things weren’t going our way when Todd didn’t get off all that early and our internet still wasn’t working (something with the wiring of an old building…blah blah blah). I should also mention that we wanted to go to the Crown but apparently you have to plan months in advance for that and we just decided that day to go…so…we didn’t plan well.  Anywho, Todd got home, we left, just intending to go and look at Lady Liberty. The train dropped us off at a station and from there we had no idea where to go. I had read online that there was a shuttle services from this station to the ferry but when we got there, we discovered that after the summer the shuttle is only available on weekends. We looked at a map and it was really only a mile to the ferry so we started walking. I knew we needed to buy tickets before we got to the ferry but we didn’t know where to get them. A third of the way down to the ferry, we decided to go to this science center and I looked online, and sure enough we could buy tickets there. We got to the science center and it was closed (the only day this month). It was determined that the Statue of Liberty was a no go that day. We then had to walk back to the station we got dropped off at but ended up taking a strange route and going in a huge circle. We took the bus back to our house but ended up getting dropped off a good two miles away from our place. We didn’t really mind it because we needed to find a store to get a few things for a dessert. Little did we know that our area of town really isn’t part of the United States. In our two-mile journey we visited Mexico, China, India and Vietnam. None of the many countries we visited had chocolate chips or oatmeal. We got back to our place, picked up Gus and continued walking to other countries. Finally we came to a little market that sold American Food!!! It was a very happy moment.  A day that was suppose to be filled with site seeing, easy shopping and minimal walking, ended up being a day filled with traveling the world, hard shopping and a lot of walking. But in the end we had fun and that’s all that really matters.