Wednesday, October 12, 2005

So my trip was pretty nice. We went to Salem (yes, the witch place), and they really played up the whole thing. You know how the whole witch hunt was about a bunch of girls who were bored and kinda rebelling against what they're expected to do as good Puritan girls, and they were making false accusations at people who weren't really witches? Well, you wouldn't be able to tell by the Salem Witch Museum that there weren't really witches. I went into the gift shop, and EVERYTHING had at least one witch or something demonic on it. Don't get me wrong, I really liked the gift shop. They had a lot of neat stuff in there, but still...aren't the deaths of 19 (I think) innocent people kinda...sad? I mean, when we took the tour and all, they explained that there weren't really witches in Salem at the time, and tried to put a good name to "witches" (old and modern), but they really played up the whole witch trial thing in the gift shop.

Alright, enough of my bitching.

We left Salem for lunch (I think we might've stayed there for lunch if it wasn't raining and muggy. It would've been so much fun if it hadn't rained, because the town was supposed to have this "Family Fun Day" or something, but it got rained out. The sign at the entrance to the park said, "Family Fun Day Cancelled." That was sad). Guess what we had for lunch...that's right! PHO. Mmm...I love pho. After that, we went to the New England Aquarium, which wasn't all that impressive. But it was only $20 for the aquarium and the IMAX...not a bad deal. After viewing the aquarium (which only took like, 45 minutes, plus there were TONS of people there so it was hot and stuffy in there), we had an hour and a half to kill before the showing of our IMAX movie. Eric's sister (Crystal) was dying for a cup of coffee, so we went to Fanueil Hall for Starbucks.

Then we went to the IMAX. Remember when I said something about the weather being rainy and muggy? Well, we went into the IMAX with that exact weather. When we came out, it was about 30 degrees cooler and still rainy, which was bad because Crystal didn't bring a jacket or an umbrella, and I was wearing my green moccasains, which were getting more and more wet (my shoes ended up dying my toes green).

Then I came home. The End.

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Anonymous said...

eh, green toes? ew. I haven't worn my orange mocs in the rain yet. perhaps that is a good thing.

anywho- new england aquarium! I went there when I was up in boston... at least I think it was the new england aq.- did you see the penguins? did they have penguins? I like the penguin.

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