This day started off calm as my cousin and I lazily walked around Manhattan taking pictures. One thing I wanted to do in New York was try Shake Shack since there weren’t any on the west coast yet. We went to the outdoor one at Madison Square Park and I ordered a ShackBurger. I must say, as a devoted lover of In N Out, I liked the Shake Shack burger more (I’m so sorry California), but Shake Shack was way more expensive so that was the only downfall. Our first big stop of the day was visiting the new One World Trade Center. As you could imagine, security was super strict and I had to step out of line so they could recheck my bag because my Polaroid camera messed with their scanner. The elevator ride up to the sky deck is such a cool experience and there a surprise when you reach the top of the building, but I don’t want to spoil it for any future visitors. We spent about 20 minutes just looking at the breathtaking 360 degree view of New York and when we finished we walked over to the 9/11 memorial museum.
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The original stairwell from one of the towers was in the museum as well as firetrucks and walls that were left standing after the towers collapsed. My cousin was working down the street from the Trade Center when the attack happened so it hit very close to home for her. The museum holds many personal items and a play by play of everything that happened that day, from the emotional phone calls from the airplanes to the soot covered clothes of the survivors. The item that made me the most emotional was a blood stained piece of printer paper that had been thrown out of a window that had “Please help us on the 86th floor” scrawled on it. I had just read someone’s last words. The museum is a very humbling experiences and shows how delicate life really is. You never know when your last day on Earth is, so live your life with a