Statue of Liberty and Chicago

we actually managed to get up in time for breakfast today which is included with the price of the motel...scrambled eggs and toast and as much coffee as you can drink at the Perkins restaurant. We then made our laborious way into New York again and got off the train at the World Trade Centre. As you can imagine being only a few days before the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 the area was heaving with people and security...they are obsessed with 9/11 and are blatently stupid enough to think that someones going to attack them on the same day in the same place!! There's even a tax of $2.50 on every flight called the 9/11 tax!!!!!Anyway we had a look round and saw the buildings that are replacing the twin towers as well as a projection for the memorial which is to be unveiled at the remembrance service (which you have to pay to attend!!) on Sunday. We made our way from here and headed down towards Wallstreet, I liked this end of New York, the buildings were much nicer to look at and the place was cleaner, more open and had more decent looking people there...no beggers or people hanging round etc. After admiring several buildings along the way we came to Battery Park which at the moment has a 9/11 memorial in the form of hundreds of flags with all the deceased s names on. I assume there was a flag for each as well as a flag from each country who lost someone...thats a lot of flags! There was also what I can only guess at being the top of one of the towers, a twisted, broken globe shaped piece of metal that stood about 12ft high. After walking through this we went to get tickets to go on the ferry to see the Statue of Liberty. They were very reasonably priced we thought at only $13 each...this was a ferry that took you to the Island the statue stands on and Ellis Island (where all the immigrants used to go to). You are able to get off at both stops and catch a later ferry back if you wished but as you had to pay extra to go up the statue we didnt bother as there wasnt really anything more to see. We were glad we didnt in the end as looking at the re-boarding process we could have been stuck in either place for hours!! We enjoyed the boat ride as the sun was out and we got some lovely views of the city skyline and obviously a close up of the Statue of Liberty. Once we got back to the mainland we jumped on the tube and made for Times Square to once again get in the ticket queue. People had obviously done this before as they sat with their supplies to wait...drinks, macDonald's etc. It took a good hour or so to get to the front of the queue where we got tickets to see Chicago at 8pm that night. As it was now only about 4.30 we went for a wander round until we found somewhere for dinner. This turned out to be TSQ, which was like an upmarket Weatherspoons, we ordered a bottle of wine, onion rings to share and a TSQ burger each which came with blue cheese, salad and fries...all of which was fresh and really very tasty! We finished our meal off by sharing a slice of chocolate marble cheesecake (we'd learnt by now that although expensive, the slices of cheesecake you get in NY are huge and really way too much for one person!) which was just as tasty as it sounds and then headed off to find the theatre. After being a little rudely ushered into our seats and told off for taking photos of the as yet empty stage we settled down to watch Chicago. A great performance and mostly quite humorous, Chicago was well worth going to watch. Afterwards we made our last long, late night travel back to the motel.