The last ferry to Liberty Island had already gone, so they were closing up the ticket office. We ended up with tickets to a 45-minute river cruise instead, and had to kill a couple of hours while waiting in Battery Park. That was really not very hard.

A couple of russian girls wanted to draw caricatures of us, and we thought: why not - only 2 dollars each! The caricatures were terrible though, impossible to recognize either me or Chris, and not very funny neither. Guess you really get what you pay for, this was not even worth uploading the pictures!

But next to the girls was something exciting, these two guys were carrying huge snakes, and letting people take pictures with the snakes! I had never even touched a snake before, so that was very interesting. That thing was heavy, rough and not as slippery as I had thought.

Finally the time for our river cruise had come, and we got some great seats on the top floor. The cruise went up to Brooklyn Bridge, then down to the Statue of Liberty, then a bit up the Hudson River. We took about a million pictures, and had a very fun time on that boat, definitely worth the $12 each!

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