The Lion City: My Trip To New York City

To start off my trip to New York City, I decided to take a stroll in Central Park. Even though, Central Park is an urban park in the middle of Manhattan, it is big enough to have a zoo, known as the Central Park Zoo. After my long morning walk at the park, I decided to take a ferry to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in the New York Harbor. When visiting Ellis Island, I went inside the museum to learn about my ancestors, since this was the building they were once transferred to, to become American citizens. I was allowed to walk around freely inside the building, without a tour guide. I learned that the first floor of the museum was once the baggage room, while the second floor was the registry room, where my ancestors were once checked in. The registry room was also where many last names were changed and replaced. Lastly, going up the stairs, I learned that the

After walking up and down the street a few times, I stopped and got lunch from Tasted Hand-Pulled Noodles, which was very crowded due to the fact it is a local favorite and is really cheap. It only took the cooks a few minutes to get my food ready, even with the big crowd. Once I was finished with my chicken and noodles, I stopped to get a scoop of ice cream a few doors down at Chinatown Ice Cream Factory. Although, it cost $5 for one scoop, there were some very interesting flavors of ice cream, that were their regular flavors, that I had to try. Just some of these flavors include ginger, green tea, pineapple, and mango. It was funny to me that their exotic flavors are the more common flavors, such as vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. I had a scoop of the mango flavored ice cream, which I was not fond of because it had chunks of mango and wasn’t smooth. I also had a scoop of the green tea, which was very good, since it actually tasted like green