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. :)

July 17th, 18th, 19th, & 20th, 2010.

Well, after venturing up into Massachusettes and visiting family, we finally got up into Maine. We only got to stay for two nights, but we sure did enjoy them! Last night we stopped in and ate at the restaurant we always go to before we leave Maine..

He kept telling us all how much he loved grilled cheese. :)
They all then took to messing around with and stabbing the lobster I'd ordered.. I don't think any of them are huge sea food fans besides Hayden..

I think Kenz is the biggest sea food hater of them all. Haha!

Later that night we went the L.L. Bean, kind of like Cabela's back home..

The instant the kids saw this boot they remembered a picture we took almost identicle to it about four years ago, and insisted on getting another one. :)

Today we ate at a similiar place to the one in Maine, this was called the Barking Crab.

This was the view of the harbor we had from exactly where we were sitting, the kids aren't used to these kinda views and they love them!

It was a really neat outdoor restaurant. :)

We're gonna be in Boston for the next couple days for Grandma's doctors appoinments, so we'll be doing some more sight seeing, I'll be updating again hopefully soon! :)