Part of the fun is trying to stand in a empty subway car without holding on. The subways we rode on today are all silver and graffiti free. Last time I was in New York was 30 years ago with our church group. The subways were filled with Graffiti and Guardian Angles with the red Barret's.
We took the Miss Liberty on the circle line to the Statue of Liberty, a US national park. 
I am not really sure how I feel about all the security precautions. You have them at airports and places like the Statue of Liberty. I want to be safe. I want my family to be safe. Yet the price seems so high.
None of us had been to Ellis Island before. It was worth the trip. It was very interesting to see the immigration stats into the US. A lot from Europe during the World Wars and then only a trickle. Then in the 1960s we started seeing a flow of immigrants from Asia and the Americas.
We searched all over the wall of immigrants from Pops and Suzanna's names.
We were able to find both of them (thanks Lisa). But in different locations.
In times square a group was staging a very small peace rally, reading all the names of the dead. They said that the reading would continue for 6 days.
We stopped at the Toys-R-US flagship store in times square. It has an indoor ferris wheel and a really big dinosaur, and a life size Barbie play house. Though he was looking, Dad didn't see any for the life size Barbies. ;-)
Finally back home to our apartment for a relaxing evening.
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