NYC Again

Day 2 in NYC was good. We got some breakfast spaghetti pizza (I'll have to find that pic and upload it) and walked to the Empire State Building with every intention of going in and up to the top. About 20 minutes in we realized the line extended another 1.5 hours and we bailed at that point. Instead we walked up to Rockefeller where we went into 30 Rock and went up to the 86th floor or something like that to their observation deck. Same price but it only took about 10 minutes to go up. This turned out to be good as we got a good view of Central Park and a view of the Empire State Building also.

After some more walking around, we decided to try to take the Subway down towards Battery Park to catch the ferry to Ellis Island. We showed up around 4:15 and the last ferry was leaving in 15 minutes. The guy told us we could get on and we could go buy tickets across the way. So we walked over there and met with the biggest asshole of a park ranger in history. We said how do we get in to buy tickets. "CLOSED FOR THE DAY" was his response. I said, uh, that guy down there said there is still time to get on and we can buy tickets here. His response - "well I'M running this joint and I say CLOSED FOR THE DAY." I say sir, we are out here from California and we are only in town for one day... To this he just stares off into space and tries not to make eye contact. We walked around the building to the other side where the girl was letting people in but just in time to learn they were now sold out. We walked back and Jon asked to get a picture with the asshole himself, to which he said "SURE!" and smiled for the camera like nothing ever happened. You can see that picture in the NYC gallery link to the right. Instead we ended up taking a water taxi out that got close to the Statue of Liberty so we could snap some pics (although only about 2 out of 30 or so came out due to boat movement causing blurriness and over-exposure from the sun behind it). We got off on another stop by Brooklyn and took the subway back up from there.

We counted on about an hour to get out of the city with traffic, but it really took us about 10 minutes tops. We got into Boston ahead of schedule tonight and had time to stop by Jon's brother's place to talk for 20 mins or so before going to his other brother's place to spend the night. That brings us to right now. So now I think I'm going to go to bed for tonight, as it is 1:30am and I'm tired from the walking around all day and then the drive. Will post more tomorrow after the Red Sox game and the rest of Boston.