…We weren’t even half way up the Statue of Liberty yet and I was ready to give in! At this point, I remember thinking “maybe I should have listened to how many flights of steps were actually in this thing!” Slowing climbing up the stairs one by one with my family now, I noticed the stairs were getting smaller, I was getting hotter, and we were catching up to a long line of people. After a while it opened up and we could see above us, going up was a tour of what appeared to be school age children about our age! They were all carrying sack lunches with them, and the funniest thing in the whole world (at that time anyway) happened, just as we looked up! One of the kids above us dropped an apple out of their sack lunch and it came barreling down straight at my dad’s head! My Dad did duck and it missed it, but we cracked up all the way to the top of the Statue of Liberty no less! Still to this day we chuckle about going all the way to the Statue of Liberty in New York from Michigan to almost get hit in the head with an apple. My Dad still laughs at us kids as well for actually thinking that we could run all the way to the top! Great memories for all of us in that trip to the Statue of Liberty, and now that I am a Mom myself, its something and someplace I would love to take my kids and create memories to share with them as well!
