Staten Island

On Saturday, I really wanted to have an adventure since we had a long weekend.  We debated over several locations, some more convenient than others, and we landed on Staten Island!  

We headed into Manhattan to take the ferry out to Staten Island

Staten Island Ferry

That's the Statue of Liberty far away

Even Chase was excited :)

He was a little nervous about a big window...

But then he noticed all the water.

Yep, happy boy.

Some views from the ferry:

Looking back at Manhattan

The new World Trade Center

Enjoying his stroll over to the Island

It's about a 20 minute ride across the river, and then we had arrived on Staten Island.

Just off the ferry

Apparently he's getting ticklish...

Marcus in front of the Staten Island Yankee Stadium

Standing by the river

Marcus ready to get moving

We decided we wanted to make it down to the ocean and marina.  We took the train down there and walked over to the park.  It was a lllllooooonnnnngggggggg walk.  We made it to the corner of the park, but we were pretty exhausted from the walk.  At least it was pretty :)

Fresh Kills Park

Super excited to be taking the bus and not walking anymore

Our best find Ralph's Ice, so freaking good!
Especially on a hot day when we were walking a ton.

Finally made it to a part of the beach

Some of the houses on the edge of the water that still needed work from the hurricane

There were a bunch of boats on the left in this picture

Waiting for one more bus to get back to the ferry

Chase enjoyed playing in the bus - and we enjoyed ease dropping on some pretty funny people

And then he started to crash

And we were heading back to Manhattan- this is Brooklyn and the Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge

Back waiting for the ferry 

It was a fun but busy day - we were all ready for a nap when we got home