NY - One World Trade Centre, 9/11 & Brooklyn Bridge

I got back to New York yesterday afternoon and actually found myself a bit overwhelmed.

After spending a lot of time in Philly and Atlantic City I was kind of used to everything being a bit slower pace. But here in NY everyone is rushing, the buildings are huge and there seems like there is an impossible amount of things to do/see here in such a short amount of time.

So what did I do to snap myself back into the NY way of life, I went to Macy's, got my eye make up done (for free!!) and had Shake Shack!

After a pretty terrible night sleep due to my dorm facing a busy NY street (which means lots of sirens,unnecessary honking and construction work starting way to early), I headed down to the financial district. Here I went up the One World Trade Centre, and it was incredible. I actually found myself saying wow outloud a few times while I was up there. 

I then went to the 9/11 tribute centre and walked through their museum which was incredibly moving and somewhat confronting. Even though I have already been on a tour of the memorial I decided to go again as I knew I would get a different tour guide and hearing the stories just make the whole experience even more memorable.

My guide was Vininie. He was the Captain of the special operations unit for the New York Fire Department. He lost 19 of his men that day.

Standing there and listening to all his stories was a surreal experience and one I will never forget, Especially when he took us to the spot where the names of his lost men were on the memorial. I think everyone cried when we rubbed his hand over their names and shed a tear.

No matter how many times I come to New York I will always come to this memorial.

After a pretty heart wrenching and emotional morning, I decided to head over to Brooklyn purely to finally walk over the amazing Brooklyn Bridge.... And boy was it everything I thought it would be.

The sun was shining bright and the sky was clear so it was the perfect day.

I strolled along, occasionally muttering at stupid tourists (by that I mean stupid Euros that have no conecpt of staying on their side of the path), absorbed in my surroundings and even witnessed a protest arch over the bridge.

I then headed back towards my hostel but not before I got a hot dog from Grays Papaya of course.

I was meant to go on a pub crawl tonight but it got cancelled (after I did my makeup of course, ugh). Instead I stayed in my dorm and chatted to my new pal Ludmila from Brazil. She's pretty much me but Brazillian.

Anyway I am off to Toronto tomorrow morning ❤️

xx