Saturday was our trip to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. It was stinking hot, but the breeze on the ferries made it a little more bearable.

 

If I have learned anything from Hollywood, it is that the Stach-o-Lib is totally huge. Some of you may be under this impression as well; especially those of you who have a fondness for Ghost Busters 2 and Splash. However, this is not the case. It is much smaller than I thought it would be. Don’t get me wrong, it was great. Just smaller than expected

 

Ellis Island was interesting. I don’t know if I can really describe the feeling there. You would think that it be all joyful and hopeful, celebrating everyone’s arrival to America, but it’s not. It was more depressing than anything. A lot of the museum talks about the all the prejudice that came as a result of the huge numbers of immigrants. And all of the persecution that took place in other countries that made people come to America (the Holocaust). It just didn’t seem like there was much to be happy about during that time. And the building was restored to what it would have looked like in the first quarter of the 20th Century and it hurt to know that people were held there before they were able to enter the country. It was such a cold and depressing place.

 

I will say that I am so thankful that I wasn’t the one who had to go through it. I am pretty sure I wouldn’t have made it through.