9/11

Yesterday there was a definite sombre atmosphere hanging over New York.

We woke up and watched the service from the amazing Memorial Gardens at the new World Trade Center. We watched as much as we could, but after a while it got a little too intense when the victim's family members were reading out the names of all the 3,000 people who lost their lives 10 years ago.

In the evening we watched a couple of documentaries about how things happened on September 11th. It feels the longer we're out here, the stranger it is watching programmes reliving the events. Seeing places we know, places we go to frequently surrounded by panic and chaos and covered in dust and debris. Although it doesn't matter how much footage we see, we can never imagine how it must have felt that morning.

Just before bed we went up on the roof to look at the two beams of light shooting up out of Ground Zero. It was a cloudy night, but you could still see them shining up to the skies. It's odd to think that we would have been able to see the towers from our roof.

I can't wait until we can see the new tower from our roof. The new buildings that are going up look amazing from the pictures I've seen. It's going to be a stunning place when it's all finished.