July 22nd, 2010.

Today we went into Salem, Mass. Dad's always got funny comments about how that's where Grandma's witch coven is from. ;) Our first stop was on the sight seeing trolley that showed us lots of cool houses and buildings and gave us the history on them. After that we hopped off the trolley and found ourselves taking the tour of The House Of Seven Gables. (Kenzie's reading the book we bought in the gift shop now as we speak.) It was a really neat house, complete with a hidden staircase behind the fire place! The house is 330 years old!

After that we wandered around Salem some more, ate lunch at a place on the coast and had probably the best food we've had yet on this trip, then walked to the memorial/cemetery of the 19 people that were hung and one that was tortured after being accused of witch craft.

The bench looking things behind the kids were actually memorials of the people who were accused of witch craft, their names, date of death and how they were killed..

These quotes were inscribed everywhere around the memorial, they were the victims last words before they were hung.

After we were done sight seeing, we wandered into the visitors center to wait for Grandma, and Kenz found this..

There was a Captain Stephen Abbott of one of the ships and this was to honor him.. We'll have to see if we can trace him when we get back home!!

Before we left, we insisted the kids stop in this photo place and get pictures as witches. (And a warlock!) The pictures turned out hilarious, I'll have to post them on Facebook when we get home. :)