The next day we woke to more overcast and wet weather. So we decided to spend the morning in Jersey City, walking around and stopping for coffee. After lunch, Rich seemed to think the weather had improved, so we caught a ferry to Ellis Island – America’s busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 to 1954. Some famous names that passed through Ellis Island as immigrants are Bob Hope and Cary Grant.
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| Ellis Island |
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| Statue of Liberty |
From Ellis Island we caught the ferry to Battery Park, Lower Manhattan. We were headed to Mel’s house for dinner and as we had plenty of time we decided to walk part of the way. It was around 5.30pm, commuter peak hour, so we dismissed the subways as too busy and hard with the kids and pram and a taxi was almost impossible to get with the intermittent rain and the traffic was a nightmare. So we found ourselves walking the whole way – 5km’s later. Rich hobbled the last remaining blocks with his bad ankle.
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| Chloe on the Ferry |
But it was well worth it. We had a beautiful dinner at Mel’s and once again it was nice conversing with other adults. We wisely got a taxi back to the RV Park from Mel’s as the heavens opened up.
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