Liberty State Park

When we first moved here, I was completely surprised to find out that the Statue of Liberty is in New Jersey. Yes indeed- Liberty Island is technically in New Jersey waters! And in Jersey City, there is a park called Liberty State Park that overlooks Liberty Island and Ellis Island. Would you believe that we live only 25 minutes away from there? It's so close! So on Saturday, we went there with our friends, the Roberts. We had a nice long walk around the park and then we ended with the playground.

Josh was totally in heaven when he found this huge chess set. So we ate lunch here while he and Wade played an intense game of chess overlooking New York City.

 Here's us and the Statue of Liberty! Haha! It's a little small from here...

 Dork shot!

 That's Ellis Island in the background.

This was the most ginormous playground we have ever seen! It was so much fun.
We found out that there are ferry rides that you can take from this park to Ellis Island and Liberty Island, so we are hoping to come back and do that soon.