Our ninth day in New York City was a girl’s day, it was just me and my mom exploring the city today. Our first destination that morning was to the M&M store. It’s just a really cute store and while we were there we had a look around Time Square and a few more stores close to it.
When we were walking back to get lunch, we got stuck trying to cross Fifth Avenue because of the Columbus Day Parade.. We were not there long until the let us cross the avenue, but we saw a marching band, a Cadillac Club, a social club.
We couldn’t stay and watch more because we had to be at the United Nations Headquarters for a tour.This was a part of our vacation that I did not except, I never thought I would go to the U.N., but I’m very happy I got to go.
It was a little stressful because, just like the Statue of Liberty, there is always a helicopter flying over it. I know this is done for security but the noise made me nervous. By just seeing the helicopters and everything in the news during those days, I thought it would be very stressful in there, but we didn’t see anything like that.
Before the tour you have to check in, they give you a bracelet yo have to wear during the tour and a sticker showing the time of your tour. You have to take this off when the tour is finished so people don’t linger around the halls. As you go into the building you also go through security, just like at the airport, except there was no line when we visited.
As we walked, they gave us a general history of the U.N. they took you to the three chambers where meetings are held and explained what happens in each of those rooms.
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