Lower Manhattan

In the morning we got up and got ready and then we set off by subway to Battery Park. We had a great view the Statue of Liberty and we took photos. There was man dressed at the statue but he was holding the torch in the wrong hand! Then we went to Trinity Church and it was pouring down with rain so we had a look around and took some more photos. Then we had a walk down Wall Street and saw the British Gardens where they carved the names of all the counties on the pavement and Benedict found Kent. Then we went into a Korean food shop and bought some drinks to keep out of the rain.


After that we walked to St Paul's Chapel where we had our 30-minute concert. It was the nearest church to the Twin Towers before they collapsed and now it is used as a memorial to all the people who died on that terrible day.


Later on we walked past Ground Zero and then we went into the 9/11 Memorial Museum and bought a few things and we bought our lunch in a deli - it was very nice food - most of us had cheeseburgers! After that we went to Pier 17 and we bought a few things in the shops. Daniel didn't buy anything because he wanted to save his money for today. Most of the Year 5s and 6s bought practical jokes.

Then we got the subway back to the YMCA, changed, had an early dinner at 63bites café and then we walked down to Times Square to see The Addams Family at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. It was really funny and lasted two hours 45 minutes. We left the theatre at 9.45 and walked back in the biting cold. Then we got changed and went to bed.


Ayo, Benedict, Jay and Daniel (Yr 5)