New York, New York.

I was unhappy about the previous day's rainy visit to Liberty Island so I made another visit to Liberty Island alone (the guys followed Ching Hei's uncle to his New Jersey's office and then shopped again at Century 21).

The queue was so long, it was snaking around the park! Twice!:
Entertainment to lighten up the mood and intense heat!:
Old jetty (under some renovation):
I finally got on the ferry.

Manhattan:
New Jersey:
Ellis Island:

There she is... in all the sun's glory:
Though initially cloudy, it soon became scorching hot. HOT.

Why is the Statue Green? Ans: Oxidation.
The three liberty's symbols include the 7-pointed crown (symbolising the 7 seas and continents), the broken chains on her feet (freedom) and the roman numerals on the book she carries (fourth of July):

THE Lady Liberty.

I wasn't posing or anything. I was squinting...:
The people there (other tourists) were really nice. They offered to take pictures for me after seeing me take snapshots of myself with my twistable-viewfinder-camera (a.k.a. cam-whore). Some even went to the extent of lying down on the ground to take the shots of me from below!

Pictures of the statue from almost every angle:

Tickets to get into the monument (just entry to the pedestal permitted... the crown and torch have been closed since 911) were completely sold out by the time I got there (and I thought I was early...)
Then it was time to go to Ellis Island, but I chose to bypass it and instead head back to meet up with the boys.

Bye Lady Liberty:
Wait... what in the world?:
Downtown Manhattan:

Brooklyn Bridge:
Met up with the boys and then we went high-end shopping at the boutiques in SoHo!!!:
And when I say shopping... We really went shopping...

And when I say high-end, I really mean high-end:
After boutique-hopping in SoHo we went to more boutiques up in Fifth Avenue! Like seriously! Anymore pampering from the sales-people and we wouldn't need to wipe our own asses...Now I know how Carrie Bradshaw feels when she shops...

So luxurious...

Money does make you happier... at least makes people want to please you more and that makes you extremely pampered which in turns makes you more happy and... and... (you get the picture...)

Never have I indulged so much in one day (we all kinda maxed out our daily spending limits on our VISA credit cards and I had to use my Mastercard to pay for everything else in the end...).