Shortly after New Years, I went into NYC to hang out with my friend Tracie. These are some pictures from my trip (I know they're not the greatest...but just use your imagination ;) ).
That last picture was from a firehouse right across the street from the World Trade Center (we didn't take any pictures of the WTC site because we didn't think that'd be appropriate...and besides, there are a ton elsewhere on the Internet). After getting dinner at the Hudson Cafateria (which is a really cool restaurant) and wandering around Rockefeller Center for a little while, we took a subway down to the World Trade Center site. The last time I had been there was right before the two towers were hit by airliners and destroyed. It's one thing to see the destruction and devestation on TV, but its another thing to actually go down there and see it firsthand. It was late, and so there were very few people there, but it was really insane (and moving) to see the site firsthand. The last time I was there, I remember walking across the large promenade and looking up and seeing these two incredibly tall buildings towering over everything. A symbol of American prosperity and might. And now, there's just a big hole in the ground. It's still hard to comprehend what happened on 9/11, and I still think a lot of people look on it from a more distant view, as if it didn't really happen. I just can't wait for them to build the memorial and the new skyscraper on that site, because while a hole in the ground might be a testament to what happened, as Americans, we need to once again show that this terrorist attack is not going to stop us.
