Saying goodbye

Hello everyone this is my last entry to thank you all for following my blog and letting me share my travels with you.  To rap things up in New York we went to Grand Central Terminal. The first and largest train station in the WORLD!  Also we went to New York public library.  Finally the TODAY SHOW. That was our last and final day in New York hope you had fun reading my blog and I had fun witting it have fun!

Picasso chicken

Yesterday we had missed the Natural History Museum so we had did it today.  I personally thought that it would be like the movie. But the museum had changed so some of it had been under renovation.  After accidentally missing our stop and going to Harlem we back tracked and went to FAO Schwartz, its a big toy store like Toys R Us. 

After looking in FAO Schwartz we headed down 5th Street.  We visited Rockefeller Center where the Today show is filmed. 

  We where heading back to the apartment and we saw Christie's. 
 It's an auction house where things are all most priceless. We saw a Picasso metal chicken statue worth $15,000,000!
 
Sunday we are going to see Wicked.  See you on the Today show.

Rainy New York

Times Square

 

Toys R Us

Yesterday we went to the United Nations to take a tour but the tickets have sold out.  So we went to the Museum of Natural History and they where going to close in two hours. Then we went to Central Park and got lost.  After that we went to Times Square and to the big Toys R Us and that was our day.  Also were going to be on the Today Show on Monday, so stay tuned.

The Statue of Liberty

Yesterday we turned in the RV.  We drove a total of 1773 miles.  Then we where driven into New York and are staying in a apartment. Today we went to go see the Statue of Liberty.
          

 We learned how she was made and given to America by the French and how the copper layer is 2 pennies thick.


After a hour wait we arrived on Ellis Island where immigrants came to start a new life in America. They had to go through medical, physical and mental tests to get to America.  Finally at the end we went to the Twin Towers Memorial.
           

 We saw the north pool and the south pool and payed our respects.  the pools walls where 30 feet deep and then went down a hole more than 30 feet deep . That was our first day in New York.

ENTRANCE TO THE INFAMOUS

LL BEAN!!

We drove up to Freeport, Maine and shopped at L.L. Bean!  Lynn can check it off her 

“Bucket List” now!  It was a pretty cool place, and yes we found something we “just had to have”  ( - =

Today we went to the beach. We walked along the Atlantic Ocean and played in the waves and collected sea shells and feed the seagulls....author Tom

                                      

This is our rig or H.O.W.  (House on Wheels)

 We ended up eat at the Run of the Mill Brew Pub in Saco, Maine.  This was a refurbished factory that started out in the 1600’s as a lumber mill progressing over the next 200 years to become an iron forging factory and ended up as giant cotton milling factories employing up to over 9000 people in the 1800’s!  They make great beer but doesn’t hold a candle to Portland, Oregon microbrews!!!!!

Paul Rever

Our next adventure was at Plymouth Rock when the first settlers came or more famously pilgrims.  We went back to the 17'th century and saw how it was like for the Pilgrims and the Indians.  We saw how the pilgrims survived buy harvesting corn and trading with the Indians. The Indians were struggling too. The Pilgrims brought diseases to the Indians. Villages where wiped out and thousands died.  The homes were simple they had mud walls dirt floors and thatched roofs.

The next day we went to Boston and followed the Freedom Trail.  The Freedom Trail is a trail that goes by all the fames land marks like the spot of the Boston Massacre.  We also saw Kings Chapel and the Old North Church.  We herd the story how the British learned that there was ammunition in Lexington and Concord. They sent 800 men to take the ammunition. When they got there the got the locale militia a battle broke out and they where forced to retreat.  The British found out that a spy had signaled riders to go to Lexington to warn them of the British. The genus plane was from the rider Paul Revere.  He became a hero of our country.   

Park Street Church 

Samuel Adams, the great brewers grave.

Paul Revere's grave.

King's Chapel

                                                              Inside of King's Chapel

                marker for the Freedom Trail

 Statue of Paul Revere

Old North Church

                                     
                                              Inside of the Old South Meeting House