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Tour de NYC


We got to take a 5 hour bus tour through Manhattan. We also got to take the ferry across the bay and then back and saw Liberty Island across the way. It was really hot! We also hit up Wall Street and other big areas in NYC. We also got to go into Central Park. Our tour guide took us in and showed us a few things with the big rocks (The park was man made to save some land for recreation in the city. So they had to blast away the rock that made up the island. When they took the rock out they put in in the ocean on an island that they didn't really care about at the time. That island later became Liberty Island!) He also showed us Strawberry Fields, which has no strawberries and no signs telling you what the plant is. Strawberry Fields was dedicated to John Lennon after he died, with the Imagine Circle at the tip or the tear drop. It is now the morning place for all celebrity icons when they die in New York. When we visited it on our tour there was nothing on it so it was a really cool picture.
The tour was really fun and let us see a lot of things we would not have seen otherwise. So if you go to NYC for a few days and are looking for things to do, go on a tour!
We also got to go to Marry Poppins on Broadway! That was so cool! It has to be hard being in a Broadway show!
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