Tuesday 29/11/2022
Happy birthday to me.
We started the day with a boat trip to the Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island. Lady Liberty is very impressive up close and the exhibition about how she was designed and built was fascinating to me. I love finding out ‘how things work’.
Ellis Island was equally as fascinating in its own way – “Give us your tired, your poor…” is inscribed on the pedestal at Statue of Liberty but applies very much to those who sought to enter America via Ellis Island.
The countries they came from; the states they were headed to; the personal letters of those trying to get to the U.S. – it was poignant and moving.
After Ellis Island we headed for the 9/11 memorial – an amazing oasis of calm in the middle of a busy city.
The reflecting pools, surrounded by the names of those who died – some with flowers, or a photo, or an American flag tucked into the name – reminding of us what happened & how the world changed over 20 years ago.
Theatre that night was The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman & Sutton Foster. It was amazing, fantastic, brilliant. Hugh and Sutton kept trying (& oft succeeding) to make each other laugh.
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