After going to Bayonne we meandered over to find out where we were going to be catching the ferry to head out to the Statue of Liberty real early the next morn. Along the way we found Liberty State Park and Liberty Pier. So we parked and off we went on foot. It's a really neat place to walk through. We walked along this dirt path and on into the pier. Doesn't look like a pier but there you are at the waters edge. It was nice to get a good shot of the NY and NJ skyline during the day. It was about the only chance we had to get them. There were helicopters giving tours of the Manhatten area and they flew over Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Matt wanted to go so bad, but we totally ran out of time to do it. We had so much to do and so little time. After we left Liberty Park we headed back to pick up Jeff and then headed through the Lincoln Tunnel again ($8.00 a pop to go through that sucker) and on into Manhatten. We had 3 places we wanted to go. One was the Museum of Sex, yes, it sounds weird but it's the history and it seemed like it was worth checking out. The other two were Central Park, and the Empire State Building, I kept calling it the Eifel Tower. Oh how silly of me!!! Anyway, after going through the tunnel at a slower pace than normal (the lights in there were yellow. Letting us know to caution ahead) we ended up in a BIG traffic jam. We were in one of the two lanes to turn right and there were 3 lanes trying to turn right. See in NY they just make up their own lanes. If there was 3 lanes on a one way street everyone would park on the outside lanes so there was only one lane to drive down (and there are only one way streets in NY). Even then ppl would park in the one open lane (yes, double park) and we had to try and squeeze around. Back to our adventure... We ended up being in the middle lane and had to merge into one of the 2 right turn lanes. We had this HUGE bus try and cut us off (which it is the law to yield to all buses there, stupid pieces of s@*t, umm... I mean crap! LOL!) so Matt trying to be a New York driver snugged his way in. Now there was this SUV to our right that was just literally hugging the bumper of the car in front of them. She was not about to let anyone in! I just couldn't believe how close she was. And just at the moment I got out my camera to take a pic of it she bumbed him and he got out of his car right where they were in the middle of turning this corner (which by the way is one of those things you have to do out there. What I mean is we have signs here that say keep intersection clear, or at least it's a courtesy to. In NY you have to crowd the street or you don't get anywhere). So anyway he got out and looked at his car. There was a small scratch on his bumper and he got back in his car got out his insurance info and just made the already bad traffic even worse!!!! He didn't even bother to move his car!!! OMGOSH!!!! Finally after an awful lot of honking of all of the cars having to sit and wait there the dumb butt moved his car off to the side, but not completely off the road so everyone could get around him. (nobody out there btw drived crappy cars. They are all nice and new at least within the last 5-8 years. Nope, no old ugly beaters like we have here. You know the ones that all of the mexicans drive here? Not a single one of those out there. It was nice to see.) With all of the traffic we ended up in, it took us longer to get to Central Park so we skipped the Museum of Sex and spent some time at Central Park. We only covered a small corner of the park in the 2 1/2 hrs we were there. We had a guy on a bike with a buggy on the back want to give a tour of the park for $60. We thought the price wasn't too bad, but we didn't have much daylight left. Then he offered us $30 for half the park and that was going to take an hour. We said no, even though we wanted to and walked around. The park was so busy until it hit about dusk and everyone disappeared. The park gets rather creepy after dark, but we kept on a walking. Jeff took some panaramic pics of me and matt at the bridge. One where we are standing on the left side of the bridge, one of us in the middle, and then one of us on the side. So it made us look like we were in 3 places at once. That was really cool looking but the pics turned out rather blurry. =( Then he took one of us where Matt was on the bottom looking over at the left side of the bridge and I was up above matt on the bridge looking down at him, then we did opposites. He went up onto the opposite side of the bridge across from where I was and was looking the direction I was standing, then I went down onto the bottom of the bridge across from where he used to be looking up. So it looked like we had us looking at each other in a square. I hope what I explained made sense. That one turned out blurry too so I didn't bother posting them. But it was the really cool thought that counts. There are many things that happen in Central Park after dark. Groups come together and they get out their music (like insturments) and play and dance until all hours of the night. There are so many different groups and so many different kinds of music. It was really cool to see ppl out there dancing and doing what you see in the movies. There was one guy out in the middle of the crowd in roller skates (yes, I said roller skates, not roller blades) break dancing in them. It was totally cool. Then we saw a really gay guy and a bunch of girls with hoola hoops just moving and dancing around to the music all while hoola hooping! What talent! After Central Park we headed to the Empire State Building. We got there at like midnight and the palce closes at 2 am. Everything there stays open late. Photos of that coming up next!
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