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so this post is a little late, but let's be honest-updating my blog is not the highest priority for me now ;) before school started in august, my best friend leslie and i went to visit our girlfriend rachel in new york. she lives on staten island and les and i had never been to ny before. the first day, leslie and i took the ferry into the city and went to the statue of liberty (not worth the money if you can't go to the top btw), ellis island (made up for our lady liberty letdown), ground zero, and walked around a ton just exploring. rachel couldn't come in the city with us, so we navigated our way around. the humidity was so awful, i thought i was going to melt first off. second, after the statue of liberty and ellis island, we were starving so we stopped off in this little underground pizza place. soon we noticed we were the only non-jewish ones in the joint and realized it was a kosher restaurant. the food was delish, but we felt a little out of place. (it was a good joke though- two mormons walk into a kosher restaurant...) we made our way past wall street, trinity church and to the 9/11 visitors center. that was awesome and so moving. it was incredible to be there and imagine the impact the city felt. here's a few pictures from the day...

the bull

9/11 visitors center

so maybe we did get scammed, don't ask how much we had to pay this guy for a few dumb pictures. we had a good laugh over it

on the liberty ferry leaving battery park