Statue Of Liberty Road Trip

We must start with a cute smile from Jacob.

Alex has been begging us for quite awhile now to go visit the Statue of Liberty. He had seen Ghostbusters 2 numerous time and loved the part where the Statue walks through the city. With Adam on vacation for most of August and a little of September we decided to just jump in the car for a road trip. The directions stated that it would take just over 4 hours to get there so we left thinking we would drive for about 9 hours the whole day. Well... more on that later.

The boys had never been to the big city before. We got to drive through Manhatten and they loved it. Of course, I did not like driving in NYC but I handled it.

We only got to stop at Ellis Island for a moment. It took over 6 hours to actually get to the boat so we were a little behind schedule. And we weren't really in the mood to run after the boys in a museum that they weren't interested in. Maybe when they are older we can fully enjoy it.

Unfortunately, the boys were too short to walk up to the crown but we did make it to the top of the pedestal. Where we promptly discovered that I have a completely irrational fear of heights. Walking down the steps just about killed me.

Here we are entering to statue.

We got to look at the flame they had in the entrance. The boys did great so far so we kept going.

Alex had to help pick lady liberty's nose.

Jonathan rubbed her feet.

We got up on the pedestal only to find that there was a wall the boys couldn't see over. In some ways, safety, this was fine. Of course, it meant that we had to lift the boys up to see the view. Scary.

Jonathan started running around the pedestal. Freaking me out more. So finally we just made our way out.

It took over 7 hours to get home with traffic. By the time we arrived at home I had driven nearly 13 hours. Way more then expected. However, we would do it all over again. We had a great family road trip and I really hope to get more in while the kids are willing to be around us.