lady liberty

this past saturday we decided to be the ultimate tourists in our own city and visit the statue of liberty and ellis island. she deserves extra-large pictures.

since she is in our backyard we decided to get up close. it was both william's and ben's first trip.

the views of lower manhattan (and our building) were great.

and lady liberty was impressive as well.

we did make it to ellis island as well, but only the grass outside the building and gift shop. william was done being a tourist.

the best part was it only took us a 5 minute walk to get to the ferry from our apartment. yippee for living as downtown as you can get!