NEW YORK - DAY 5

This was our last day in NYC. We had to leave the city at 5:30pm in order to fly home. Before making our way to Newark, NJ we had a couple of things left to do! We had to wake up super  early to make our way down to Battery Park in order to get on a ferry to Ellis Island. This is the island where all the immigrants that came to America had to go through before they were aloud to enter, work and live in the United States. The ferry passed the Statue of Liberty on its way to Ellis so I was able to take some photos with my, this time, charged camera! 

We grabbed an audio tour when we arrived at the Ellis Island museum. The whole thing was really very interesting. It's kind of hard to imagine what it was immigration was way back when. We walked through the main hall where 80 years ago thousands of immigrants from Italy, Ireland, Britain, Russia etc would have stood waiting to see if the 6 month journey on a very cramped and horrible ferry ride was worth it, or if they had to turn around and go back home. We stayed at the museum for around 2, 2 and a half hours and I have to say, as someone who enjoys history, I really found the whole thing very interesting. 

A real Oscar! (Bob Hope's Oscar) 

After getting back on to the mainland we had some lunch/breakfast in a little Diner a couple of blocks away from Grand Central Station. As we made our way back to the hotel we went to see B.B King's bar on Times Square. 

We also passed the Men In Black headquarters. (Well, maybe. It looks like the building from the film though! I love MIB!)

We were nearly back at the hotel when we saw a few people standing outside a building shouting "Emma!" Obviously I was confused! However when I looked at the signs on the barrier I realised that they were standing outside  Late Show With David Letterman. After asking around we found out that Emma Stone, from the new Spider Man, was in there. If we had time and it was not raining we might have stayed to see her come out of the building, but we had a flight to catch and we were soaking wet so we went and had a lovely piece of New York Cheesecake at Lindys! (However, If Rhys Ifans was in there I would have stayed and missed out the cheesecake!) 


At half past 5 the bus took us to the airport and after hanging around talking to a few people in the departure area we got on the plane back home! It was an awesome trip! Tiring, yes! But AWESOME!