jessie decided to celebrate her pre-birthday with a sunset champagne cruise. what a fabulous idea... but sounds expensive, right? well, it wasn't. it was free! that's right folks... for all of nothing you can take a sunset cruise in nyc... on the staten island ferry. we picked up a few bottles of champagne and headed to the ferry terminal near battery park in lower manhattan and then boarded our ferry along with all the other tourists who have figured out this marvelous free boat trip. check out the views you get of the city!

that's the lower manhattan skyline at sunset. absolutely beautiful! the reason a lot of people take the ferry to staten island isn't because staten island itself is a marvelous place full of things to see and do... they take it because they've figured out it's a free way to get a really great view of the statue of liberty. instead of waiting in line for hours and paying lots of money to take a boat to the statue of liberty, folks have figured out that you can get very close to seeing lady liberty without having to pay and wait in long lines. check out this view at sunset...
and finally, here is a shot of me and the birthday girl on the ferry. jessie is my second oldest friend - we've been friends for 14 years!

ahhhhh nyc. so much to do and explore...
3 comments:
you big liar! you look gorgeous!
Ooh! So much fun. Although they say that alcohol and boats do not mix, I think you've definitely proved this to be wrong!
I wish I'd gone on the Staten Island Ferry with you and champagne (or just you would have been okay too!) instead of the Circle Line Tour I went on when I was visiting you.
You were at work, so it was just me hangin' out on the deck with a large Bengali family who were sort of intense about taking photographs of each other and, of course, roped me into taking millions of pics of them.
In any case, glad you're having fun!
Sarah M
pics look lovely. what a perfect sunset you got!
can't wait to see you in a few weeks. and then again a week later!
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