The first time we got to see this famous statue wa...

The first time we got to see this famous statue was in 1986 when we happened to live in Flushing New York. A friend of ours took us there by car and we were simply thrilled to see this beautiful statue and enjoyed the ferry ride and climbed upto the crown. Our next trip was in May 2009 when we were visiting New York. We took the Long Island expressway and alighted at Penn Station. The ques were huge and it took us quite some time to get the tickets for the ferry ride. Standing in the que was not boring as there was much to watch-men on stilts, beggars a plenty men playing on different musical instruments, vendors selling liberty statues and crowns of varied sizes. A man playing the harmonium played 'Insy winsy spider 'on seeing a 4 year old , someone played'Jana gana mana ' on seeing us . Then there was the frisking and security check-ups.
Then we got onto the top deck and enjoyed the ride. The 'Lady in Green' looked magnificent and to me she seemed to wearing a green saree and upholding the torch. We could not manage to get tickets to the crown so we looked around and then took a ferry to see Immigrant Museum.We once got to see Liberty when we travelled from Chicago to Newark and the pilot lowered the plane and told us to look at the 'Lady in green'.The statue is actually Liberta the Roman goddess of liberty. She holds over her head on her right hand a torch and there is a tabula insata on her left hand with July 4th 1776 written in Roman numerals.A broken shackle and chain lie at her feet and she seems to welcome the immigrants coming to the USA. Felt good to be at the iconic spot.