Saturday is a special day
Today was another nice, fairly relaxing day, but I feel like I got some good things accomplished. I got up at 8am this morning to meet with the Comms elective class that I'm taking. We met down at City Hall, by the Brooklyn Bridge and looked at Park Row, where all the newspapers used to be housed. Park Row used to be synonymous for newspapers like Wall Street is for finance. We learned some pretty cool things, but several of the buildings were torn down.
We also saw Ground Zero which was near that area. It was a really humbling experience. I took some pictures on my disposable camera but obviously can't post them today. Some others that I was with will send me pictures and I'll post them when I can. You can see here I've included some I found on the web.
The WTC area was pretty empty except for some of the subway construction over there (fixing the rails that were beneath the buildings). There was also a set of stairs that survived all the rubble. It's kind of a monument there because little survived all the damage. The famous cross formed by the burnt metal pillars was also there but had been moved closer to the fence to be surrounded by light at night for visitors (picture below shows the ceremony of when it was moved). There were stories, pictures, names and a timeline along the perimeter of the fence. Very humbling. I'm going to visit Battery Park sometime as well, and there is a gold ball statue that used to be in the WTC Plaza between the two buildings. It survived the events but sustained a large hole in its side. It is now on display in that park. The World Trade Center area used to be known as Radio Row, comparable to Park Row and newspapers. On our walk we also saw the American Stock Exchange.
We went to Trinity Church, which used to be the tallest structure in New York until the Brooklyn Bridge towers were built in the 1800s. There, we found the tomb of Alexander Hamilton and his widow, Eliza Schuyler Hamilton. That's where we ended the class tour for the day, but on the way back to the subway Melissa and I saw Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange, The Trump Building, as well as the location where George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States of America. I have pictures on Melissa's camera, but she isn't around right now so I'll post them another day.
We came back to the I-House for lunch and then I took a nap...for two hours! I was so exhausted I didn't even hear my phone ring 30 minutes into my nap and that's usually the thing I never sleep through. So, my body must have really needed it. I bought a mini refrigerator from another I-Houser for $20 so that was great. I played some web sudoku while I waited for Lyndsey and Meridith to get back and then we took our first grocery trip since we've been in New York. We went to Fairway Market which is about 3 blocks away and is located RIGHT on the bank of the Hudson River. Unfortunately it's all uphill from the market to the I-House. I got some stuff to make peanut butter & banana sandwiches, and tuna sandwiches, so that's exciting. Now that I have a fridge I was also able to get some milk, OJ, and other odds and ends. So, it should help save some money for sure.
Tonight Lyndsey needed to do some laundry so she, Meridith and I just stuck around the I-House (man I sound like a boring person these days!). Tonight there was a harbor cruise for the single's ward that we're apart of that was $20 a person. I would have liked to have gone, but it was mostly just a dance and I'm not big on dances, so it didn't seem entirely worth the $20 to me. Besides, I got a fridge instead. :o)
I did some reading in DaVinci Code and hung out with Lyndsey and Meridith, for the small amount of time we saw her tonight. :o) Her husband, Edward, who is back in Provo, found out today that he was accepted to a prestigious writing school in England to start in October. They're both ECSTATIC about it so she was making phone calls most of the night. Congrats, Edward! That'll be exciting.
Anyway, it's getting late.
-mk
In this picture you can see the Trinity Church, viewing it from Wall Street. The white building on the left is the side of the New York Stock Exchange. On the right, where the flags are, is a large statue of George Washington on the spot where he was sworn in as the first president of the United States of America. The Trump Building is just behind this picture, next to the statue.
We also saw Ground Zero which was near that area. It was a really humbling experience. I took some pictures on my disposable camera but obviously can't post them today. Some others that I was with will send me pictures and I'll post them when I can. You can see here I've included some I found on the web.
The WTC area was pretty empty except for some of the subway construction over there (fixing the rails that were beneath the buildings). There was also a set of stairs that survived all the rubble. It's kind of a monument there because little survived all the damage. The famous cross formed by the burnt metal pillars was also there but had been moved closer to the fence to be surrounded by light at night for visitors (picture below shows the ceremony of when it was moved). There were stories, pictures, names and a timeline along the perimeter of the fence. Very humbling. I'm going to visit Battery Park sometime as well, and there is a gold ball statue that used to be in the WTC Plaza between the two buildings. It survived the events but sustained a large hole in its side. It is now on display in that park. The World Trade Center area used to be known as Radio Row, comparable to Park Row and newspapers. On our walk we also saw the American Stock Exchange.
We went to Trinity Church, which used to be the tallest structure in New York until the Brooklyn Bridge towers were built in the 1800s. There, we found the tomb of Alexander Hamilton and his widow, Eliza Schuyler Hamilton. That's where we ended the class tour for the day, but on the way back to the subway Melissa and I saw Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange, The Trump Building, as well as the location where George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States of America. I have pictures on Melissa's camera, but she isn't around right now so I'll post them another day.
We came back to the I-House for lunch and then I took a nap...for two hours! I was so exhausted I didn't even hear my phone ring 30 minutes into my nap and that's usually the thing I never sleep through. So, my body must have really needed it. I bought a mini refrigerator from another I-Houser for $20 so that was great. I played some web sudoku while I waited for Lyndsey and Meridith to get back and then we took our first grocery trip since we've been in New York. We went to Fairway Market which is about 3 blocks away and is located RIGHT on the bank of the Hudson River. Unfortunately it's all uphill from the market to the I-House. I got some stuff to make peanut butter & banana sandwiches, and tuna sandwiches, so that's exciting. Now that I have a fridge I was also able to get some milk, OJ, and other odds and ends. So, it should help save some money for sure.
Tonight Lyndsey needed to do some laundry so she, Meridith and I just stuck around the I-House (man I sound like a boring person these days!). Tonight there was a harbor cruise for the single's ward that we're apart of that was $20 a person. I would have liked to have gone, but it was mostly just a dance and I'm not big on dances, so it didn't seem entirely worth the $20 to me. Besides, I got a fridge instead. :o)
I did some reading in DaVinci Code and hung out with Lyndsey and Meridith, for the small amount of time we saw her tonight. :o) Her husband, Edward, who is back in Provo, found out today that he was accepted to a prestigious writing school in England to start in October. They're both ECSTATIC about it so she was making phone calls most of the night. Congrats, Edward! That'll be exciting.
Anyway, it's getting late.
-mk
In this picture you can see the Trinity Church, viewing it from Wall Street. The white building on the left is the side of the New York Stock Exchange. On the right, where the flags are, is a large statue of George Washington on the spot where he was sworn in as the first president of the United States of America. The Trump Building is just behind this picture, next to the statue.
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