Day 5: NYC

This photo was taken from the bow of Our Delite. You can’t understand the size of her until you look at the people on the ground surrounding her. Glad we got to see her before France takes her back. At her feet, where her robe drapes the ground, lay a broken shackle and chains—a symbol of the abolishment of slavery. “The Statue of Liberty we now associate with immigration was a gift from France to commemorate the emancipation of American slaves. Before you lift your eyes to her torch of enlightenment, first pass them over the broken shackle and chains at her feet.” The opening words of Emma Lazarus's poem engraved on a plaque at the Statue of Liberty—"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"—have long evoked images of immigrants arriving on our shores, seeking a better life in The American Dream. The plaque wasn't added to the statue until 1903, nearly two decades after the statue was unveiled. The original inspiration for the monument was emancipation. As a country we are still struggling with the aftermath of slavery and we should do better than we have.

We went under the Brooklyn Bridge to get to the Statue of Liberty and then spent a few minutes just looking at the isle of New York.

Once we got to the marina, while out walking Zander, we watched these racing sailboat being unloaded. That’s a woman up on the sails. (I don’t think she’s tied off.)