Visiting the Lady and NYC

As promised, here is a post from August of Uncle Steve & Aunt Shelle's visit.  After leaving our 2-year-old in the capable care of her Grandma, we squeezed together in one vehicle to drive to Hoboken to catch the ferry.  Here we are viewing downtown Manhattan across the river...

Shelle & I, friends from youth, sisters by marriage...

Isaiah and his look-alike on the ferry...

Two 7-year-olds, Charlie & Selah, born just weeks apart, listening to their ear-phone tour guide...

Inside the Lady's base, sitting on a replica of her toes, listening to their 'phones'...

Nice family!  Steve, Shelle, Connor, Charlie & Cassie.  Taken from the top of the Lady's base...

Our family shot (minus Hannah)...

Enough to churn any mother's stomach...

NYC in the background, Lady Liberty copycats in the foreground...

A shot taken of the Lady's insides, looking up...

'Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless,
Tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
 

Four boys on a boat...

Now in the city, Duane needed a doughnut and coffee...

Four boys in a park in NYC...

911 Memorial... very sobering...

Cascading pools of water surrounded by names and names and names of those who died...

Appropriately called 'survivor tree', grown back from the charred and splintered stump that survived the smoking ruins of 911...

Six kids and a freedom tower...

And to end the day, we had to deal with our scraped vehicle from a parking garage.  Here Aunt Shelle is very capably entertaining some tired younguns while we wait for police reports and insurance claims...

Thanks for a wonderful time, Uncle Steve & Aunt Shelle!  When are you coming back for another visit?