First day continued, with a continuation of touristy goodness

The three of us found the source of power of Wall Street.

Joe failing horribly at taking a picture of the cute girl.

After arriving back in port, we continued the touristy trend and headed to the Financial District. We did not do too much there, aside from acting like complete tourists by taking a lot of pictures in front of buildings and landmarks. After doing this, Rose had an urge to get some iced coffee, so we stopped by a nearby Starbucks to pick some up.

Then something crazy happened.

Actually, let me explain. This day was filled with many signed that luck was on our side. I would even go on to say that it seemed like were were...fated to have a good trip. So what were the signs?

Sign #1: The plane departed ten minutes early (a small sign, but a good sign nonetheless).

Sign #2: There was not a long line to see the Statue of Liberty.

Sign #3: (Please ignore the following paragraph if you are short on time, its really not all that interesting) This will take some explaining, but basically one of the reasons why we considered going to the Statue of Liberty was because we initially wanted to go on a ferry ride to take scenic pictures of Manhattan. So we had originally planned to take the free Governor's Island ferry, which would also allow us to see a temporary urban art exhibit compromised of a large-scale man-made waterfall. After some ill advice that the Statue of Liberty ferry would in fact pass these waterfalls, we changed our plans. After disembarking the ferry after the Statue of Liberty excursion, we were mildly disappointed that we did not see the waterfalls.

(We now continue our story which hopefully will be more interesting than the preceding interlude) However, while Rose was in Starbucksm out of the corner of my eye I saw the waterfalls not two blocks away! I ran excitedly to the rest of the crew to tell them the news, and then we went to see them. They were nice, but overall it was kind of anti-climatic.

Cool? Yes. Mind-blowing? Mm, maybe not.

By that time, it was about when we were supposed to check in the hotel. All of us were amazed by our efficiency because we had accomplished so much in such a short amount of time. We headed back to the hotel, checked in, and took a much needed break. It was only 3pm now, and we felt like we had been in NY a week.