22 April 2019 - New York

Woke to the sound of rain on our last full day in NYC. Not heavy rain, just a steady drizzle. We walked to Fluffy's for breakfast and then caught the subway all the way to the bottom tip of Manhattan to catch the Staten Island Ferry.

Staten Island is one of the five burroughs of New York city and is accessible by a ferry which leaves every 30 minutes and which is free. 

The attraction is that the ferry sails right past the statue of liberty. I was hoping to get a good photo as we sailed past but the windows were were totally covered in salt spray and rain drops and this is the best I could do.

Once we arrived at Staten Island we hopped straight from our ferry to the one returning to Manhattan. From there back on the subway and back to our hotel. We've both pretty well covered everything we wanted to do in NYC and with the steady rain we spent the afternoon resting and getting ready for our train trip to Washington DC tomorrow. For dinner we walked to Luigi's Pizzeria for a genuine 16" New York pizza which was terrific, but i couldn't eat all of my share. Tomorrow we catch the AMTRAK at 10:30 to Washington, for the last part of our trip.