Photos from the Statue of Liberty and one of our last days in New York, as promised.

Despite the cold, I think Mark has discovered a new hidden talent. He has quite the knack for getting in frame when you least expect it**.

Now some of you might recognise this sculpture:



It used to stand in the WTC forecourt, and is probably most remembered as the sculpture that is blown off it stand and rolled into a Starbucks in the movie Fight Club. Welly... When they were cleaning up after the whole mess they unearthed it, and it now stands at Battery Park as a permanent memorial to the people it saved who where miraculously sheltered inside its massive hollow brass innards. Its hard to see, but the whole top of the globe is ripped right open.

This is the Manhattan skyline as seen from Liberty Island. In the closer picture you can see the shadows of the buildings that used to be there but had to be demolished because of structural damage after the WTC collapsed. You cant see it in the photo, but the old Doiche Bank building is still standing - shrink wrapped in scaffolding and warning signs, waiting for someone to tear it down. Must be an insurance problem or something. I wondered if maybe all the belongings of people that had to evacuate so suddenly were still inside. After all, no one has been back in there since.





This is the only picture I could get of a church we saw on our Ho-Ho tour around Uptown NYC. Its been in the making for over 150 years and still has another 50 to go. It was so huge! I think the tour guide said something about it being the 3rd largest church in the world or something like that.



Ducks! Since y'all are probably sick of squirrels.



Central Park and things in Central Park (including me on a pile of mucky old snow - that was the ONLY snow we saw despite the weather):













Liberty Striding Forward:





** Most pictures staged