took the ferry out to the Statue of Liberty in the pouring rain. (Look closely at the base of the statue in the photo to the right, you can see the rain.) There was no shelter on Liberty Island (where the statue is), so we didn’t get off. Went to Ellis Island, saw the immigration museum (above). They had stats on how many people passed through certain points of entry on their way to the states. They had “Vancouver, Canada” (it bugs me when they do that) as one of the top ones. Then they grouped Montreal, Quebec (City, I presume), and St. John together…which makes no sense… that’s like saying New York, Boston, and Miami all count as one point of entry. Arrr!

and the museum was packed, it was like every school on long island was on a field trip, wow kids are loud.

went to the MoMA. weird to see Matisse, Pollock, Johns, Monet, Picasso (left), Duchamp (below), Mondrian, VanGogh, and Warhol all in the same place at the same time. Dali’s Persistence of Memory was there, it’s so small (above, lower left painting). There was this piece of glass reported to have an image on it that appears when your breath condenses on it. Someone tried exhaling on it, but she couldn’t see anything appear. I’m thinking it was a ploy to get people to look foolish in an art museum.