A sleep-in morning today and we had breakfast in our room after purchasing fruit, cereal, OJ and pastries the previous night. We had a 10 am appointment at the 9/11 Memorial which we missed as we all got lost in Penn Station - thank goodness for the mobile phone that we purchased in Orlando. We had all gone off in different directions after receiving differing instructions on where to purchase metro tickets. After the "kerfuffle", we all had a good laugh and set off by metro to the Memorial.
The Memorial is really magnificent - two beautiful waterfall pools standing where the twin towers once stood. The area was surrounded by trees and there was even one tree (aptly named the "Survivors Tree) which had withstood the demise of all the buildings. It was a very moving experience to see the memorial and we were very humbled by the experience.
Upon leaving the Memorial, we split up into two groups. All the boys went to the Intrepid aircraft carrier and museum and apparently enjoyed themselves. Us girls were on a serious mission - we went shopping at Macy's! We had a fabulous five hours of shopping, Livvy and Teagan had a most wonderful time trying on nearly every "prom' dress in the shop and they were in heaven. It was lovely to watch their enthusiasm and I encouraged them to buy anything and everything which was on sale (I'm not sure that Karen and Wendy liked me saying that to their daughters - lol!) We all had a great time and we were exhausted after our 5 hours.
Wendy, Daf, Nick and myself went for dinner at the Crown Triple Pub and had a fab meal. The Patmans went uptown for Subway and to check out the Toys r Us store.
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