Sorry to miss a day of blog....Sunday was one of those "lazy" days...not that we spent our time laying around, but it was just a hodgepodge of things......LJ and I got up early and got dressed for our Sunday run....just a little excited to run in Central Park after our visit there the other day...we carefully mapped out our route before we left....and that was quickly changed as soon as we arrived to find 10,000 runners were in the park too, running a half marathon! It was a little crowded but the upside was that if we had to cross their path we just "jumped in" until we had to "jump out"....loads of fun!
How do we look? Like movie stars? Hard not to feel that way...this is one of the most photographed areas of NY and has appeared in many many movies! Running here was a ton of fun!
When we got back we went for a little walk...found The Cobert Report main entrance, Radio City..which by the way we can see from our apartment at night...Rockerfeller Center, again only blocks away...5th Avenue is...well very expensive...St. Patrick's Cathedral which is right in the middle of 5th is spectacular in its' architecture.
We finished up the evening with a great supper at another fabulous Italian Restaurant, just around the corner.....and of course some great wine...
Today was a lot more adventuresome.....we were headed for Ground Zero, the 911 Memorial Museum and a first subway trip for Yvette! She was excited to try this method of transportation!
We exited the subway station at the World Trade Center stop....end of the rail line....as we came up from the station the streets are way more crowded and construction is still very much under way...the new tower looms...One World Trade Center "Freedom Tower"...we have seen the documentaries before we arrived in NY, showing the construction of this tower..it is as amazing standing before it as one could imagine...the construction continues to complete the tower as well as the Transportation Center which also looks like it will be an amazing structure!
We ventured to the reflecting pools in Memorial Park, built on the footprints of the North Tower and the South Tower. Strangely even though I never knew any of those who perished on September 11, I felt as though I recognized some of the names that are memorialized on the ledge of the pools...even when we got to the museum, those same names showed up again and again....it may be that I had read their story of how they came to be there, or heard their family's story of surviving after 911.....it doesn't really matter why or how...this event did not just touch those who perished, those who survived or their families...it touched us all as we watched, as we listened and as the days, months and years unfolded..I remember that morning..where I was standing, I remember watching, and I remember saying.."this is no accident and this will not be something that will be over for a very very long time".. I don't think I understood the enormity of those words even as I spoke them....
As we moved through the exhibit, some of which you were allowed to photograph and another section that you weren't, something struck me.....very little was said about the perpetrators of this disaster..and rightly so for they are undeserving of any memorial. There is mention of them and how they came to be there, and their names...but just a very small corner....and as we passed this small plaque showing their names and which flights they had commandeered, the question could be heard more than once..."why would they even put that in here"....I asked they same question and then I realized...these were only a few men...a few villains and while the impact of their actions were hugely devastating on a nation and on the world, what really came to light here are the heros..those that showed up on that day, those who didn't leave, those who decided this plane is not going to be used as a weapon of destruction, those who helped with the recovery process, and those who continue the mission to keep their memories alive.....there are more heros in this world, than there are villains.
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