3 hour tour

The best way to see Manhattan when you have very few hours in which to "see" Manhattan is a river cruise. You get to see the majority of the sites and you get to do it sitting down ( although Matt always does his site seeing sitting down...)

We opted for the 3 hour tour that takes you all the way around the island, and we had just enough time to head down in the morning take the tour and head to the airport.

Here are some of the highlights

Many a person learned what bird strike is when a plane landed on the Hudson River a few months before we went to New York. Although us Eddie Izzard fans have known for a long time what bird strike is.

The boat we were on was one of the first boats to reach the plane. They were backing out to start the tour when the plane landed. Here is a picture of where it landed.

This is Pier 54, where the Titanic would have docked if she had made it to New York, the pier is said to be haunted

This is the very first cell phone tower, the town of Hoboken NJ has a cool history, the first cell phone call, the first documented baseball game, and the oreo cookie just to name a few.













Ellis Island, it's alot bigger and nicer then I thought it would be. It's crazy to imagine the
amount of people who went through here, after leaving so much behind praying to find a better life.










We didn't have enough time this trip to go to Liberty Island, but you get an awesome view on the island tour. The crown had just reopened the day before, it had been closed since September 11th.

The United Nations building was built with windows on both sides to depict the transparity that they wanted to have

Not exactly the best place to advertise for the best locations and lowest prices on hotels. I would not want to stay there!

The House that Ruth built, in all it's glory... before they tear it down.

And the very best tidbit of information I learned on the 3 hour tour was about the Intrepid. This loverly Aircraft Carrier from WWII was built in 5 months by women. It takes the boys almost 5 years to build one now.