Boston, MA

The morning started off by visiting the Rebecca Nurse Homestead in Danvers, MA. Rebecca Nurse was the oldest woman to be hanged for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Her house still stands but with quite a few additions built on through the centuries. The homestead was really neat to see. The low ceilings weren't because the people were shorter, but because it kept the heat out, was easier to build, and some other reason that I don't remember. Either way, we walked down to the cemetery and saw here's and many other people's grave. Who is John Proctor? I need to look that up. Whatever.

As franks FB status said, he ripped a greasy one in her house. Nice, now she is going haunt us.

Now since we have missed all the morning commuter trains that we insisted to ride, we had to kill some time (2 long hours). So I became navigator, and found a really great restaurant. Tiny, but great. Blue Moon Grill in Wakefield, Ma which is the station/stop we needed to get on the train. 

We got our tickets at a Shaws Supermarket and headed to the station. We got on the train and made our way I to Bosom at the North Station (which crystal insisted was not our stop, until the conductor said "final stop") anyway, we got off and headed for the orange subway line to take us to Park Street, the Boston Common. Boston is such a beautiful city! The streets were clean and the people were tolerable. 

We walked the freedom trail and saw so many historical spots. At Granary Burial Ground many founding fathers are buried. Paul Revere's headstone was covered in pennies because he was a silversmith, blacksmith and copper(smith?). Crystal and I added our own pennies to the collection. It was really neat. The John Hancock headstone was really big and for some reason I almost cried. I am such a need but I was sort of overwhelmed by the fact that those men made this country! (Too bad it is going to shit) mostly all of the smaller headstones had a skull and angle wings on them which is traditional to graves in the Boston area. (One was at the Nurse Homestead). 

We proceeded to see many churches, meeting houses, state houses, statues, memorials, ships, museums, and houses. It was cool! I wish we did not have to leave Boston so soon since I had never been there. One day is not enough to absorb this city that is so rich in history. 

We took a ferry from the USS Constitution (which was my 2nd favorite stop next to Granary Burial Ground) to a other harbor more central to Boston. We had dinner at Legal Seafood and it was much better than the "Seawitch". Our server was extremely nice too. 

After dinner we walked down to the state street subway entrance (which is under the old state building where the Declaration of Independence was read off and the site of the Boston Massacre) and got on the orange line to North Station. Waited for the train, which we were early to. So we got on the earlier train (not the one I planned on) and well, it didn't stop at our stop, so we had to get a cab but whatever, it was fine. 

Ok that's enough writing for today, since We are now on the way to Groton, CT and I am getting whiplash from Bills driving.