After we left Niagara Falls we headed out to Salem, Mass! Yes, Salem as in witches! We started off the morning by walking around the historic town square! It was in the place that many people were accused of being witches in the 1600's. We bought tickets to a show called "Crying Innocent," which was basically a condensed version of "The Crucible." The show started in the town square. People dressed up like they were from the 1600's started mingling in and then eventually there was a town meeting. At this point someone ran out and accused this one girl of being a witch. We then all watched her get dragged into a court house, where we became the jury and got to listen to testimony from the accused and decide if she should be put on trial or not. Woah. It was crazy fun. We decided she wasn't a witch.
After the show we went and had some great soup! Nothing beats eating New England Clam Chowder...in New England!
Basically Salem is covered in all things magical. There are witches, wizards, ghosts, and everything in between. There are a lot of people who are actually wicken. It's insane.
Next we decided that there wouldn't be a more magical place than Salem to see the Harry Potter Movie. We cried like babies! We can't believe it is over. :( We really enjoyed the movie, but somehow every single person in theater was smacking their popcorn as loud as possible and it was really annoying!
Thennnnnnnn we walked around Salem until we found the boat docks! Salem used to be the largest port in New England so they have a really cool bay area. We sat on the edge of the dock and watched the boats and just tried to relax a little. We had a long night ahead of us!
At 6 o'clock we went to this crazy old house and had our fortunes told to us. We both had a tarot card reading, a palm reading, and a health scan. It was interesting...Tanner was told that he was a creative animal person...he had on a t-shirt with a cat and his arm had "dream" tattooed across it. Brooke was told that she shouldn't smoke, because it would be bad for her lungs, and that she should do a job that involves paperwork. ;)
The last thing we did in Salem, was the funnest! We took a walking ghost tour around Salem! We learned a lot. Pretty much every Parker Brother board game was based off things in Salem, including the old Salem Jail. We even got to see the little houses that the houses on monopoly are based off. We saw a really old cemetery-the same one where the old man Giles Corey was crushed to death after being accused of being a witch in 1692. It was crazy to see everything we had learned about in school come to life!
The next day we took the train into Boston! Boston seems like a really cool city, but it was dead on a Sunday! There were literally no people out and about. We honestly just walked around the city and took pictures! Here are some cool ones.
China Town
The Bridge
Creepy Person who looked like a statue!
After Boston we went to Cambridge and walked around Harvard! It was really cool to see the place where Facebook was invented!
We got in the jeep and drove to New Haven, Connecticut, and had dinner at Ikea! Then we kept going and stopped for the night in East Rutherford, New Jersey!
More to come from New York City!
-T & B.
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