The World Seen By Sam: December 2, 2014 (New York City, NY)

Today we went to the 9-11 Museum and Memorial. It was good but sad to learn about our earlier history before I was born. In front of the museum they had two large inverted fountains that were in the outline of the Twin Towers. Around the fountains were all the names of people that were killed during 9-11. Recently they rebuilt a building in memory of the Twin Towers, it's name is Freedom Tower 1. Inside the museum they had ruins of the World Trade Centers including the stairs that the victims of 9-11 ran down, some of the support beams from under the World Trade Center and a fire truck. In one of the rooms they had pictures of all the victims that had been killed in 9-11 including my sister's friend's dad. We were able to read about him and hear a message from her to her father. During 9-11 there were almost 3000 victims that died during the World Trade Center attacks, the crashed hijacked plane, and the Pentagon crash. Through this terrible incident our country truly united.

In the afternoon we visited my mom's friend Marge who made us lunch and told us about her life long story since my mom hadn't seen her for 20 years. Marge was super nice lady that my mom went to high school in Maryland. While we were there she gave us some recommendations on what to do and where to eat. Later that afternoon we went to the IMAX theater in the Natural History Museum, the famous FAO Schwartz, the famous Apple Store on 5th Avenue and went to this great pizza joint where I had Saw-Seech pizza for dinner, which was really good. The IMAX we saw was about great white sharks. In the movie we saw where we actually went in South Africa! They showed the shark diving ship which we saw when in Hansbai. We were also able to walk around the Natural History Museum. We saw the animals of North America and the underwater sea life, including a massive Blue whale.