Wow. That is all I can say about today. We left Boston this morning in sunshine. The first sunshine we have seen all trip. Oh, it felt so good!
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| Took a picture of the front of our hotel in the sunshine. |
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| And of Boston. |
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| Boston is a very pretty city, if only you didn't have to drive through all those tunnels to get there. |
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| From Boston, we traveled East to Plymouth, MA, the birthplace of our nation. |
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| There we saw Cape Cod; which is very pretty. |
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| A replica of the Mayflower. That was actually the size of the original Mayflower. However, it didn't really land in Plymouth. It landed further out, the Mayflower was too big to come all the way into the harbor. I don't remember the whole story but it was very interesting and not like what we learned in elementary school. |
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| Took a self-portrait in front of the Mayflower. Yes, I was there. |
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| Then we saw the actual rock. Yes, this is Plymouth Rock. Today the rock sits to be about one fourth the original size. Too many tourists came over the years and chipped away pieces, plus the people of the town moved the rock around breaking it several times over. Now its guarded by a Greek Revival building and a wrought-iron fence. |
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| From Plymouth, we drove West through Rhode Island. Note to Rhode Island, clear the greenery around your signs, you can't read what the exits are if they're covered by trees, and then you end up missing an exit. |
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| Rhode Island was a short drive. Probably because it's the smallest state in the US. Then it was to Connecticut. State sign shot through the windshield. |
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| In Connecticut we stopped at a hatter in New Haven so my dad could get his hat looked at and his head measured. Little known fact to me, the hatter was just a few blocks from Yale University. I saw Yale today! |
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| Then we were off to New York!!! Surprisingly the traffic wasn't as bad as Boston. |
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| We found our hotel rather quickly (our room is three floors up, above a subway line, we can hear the subway), then went walking around. Went to Times Square. |
Took a video of Times Square. Went a little too quick. Sorry. My camera battery was dying.
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| Walked down Broadway a bit and bought some souvenirs. Grabbed dinner at Famiglia. It's a pizza place that has pretty good pizza. |
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| It was about time now to come back to the hotel and get ready to go see Wicked!! We got dressed to the nines and walked two blocks to the theater. This is a picture of the set prior to the beginning. |
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| And sat in out seats!! (My dad wasn't really sleeping, just caught the picture at a bad time and he wasn't game for another try.) That play was A-MAZING!!!!! I would see it again in a heartbeat. Except next time I would go for near front row seats and pay the $250 a seat for them. |
We got back to the hotel kind of late for the night. And now I'm settling in to fall asleep to police sirens and taxi horns. Tomorrow we are headed to Baltimore to see the Ravens stadium, and maybe track down Charm City Cakes, and then to Washington DC.
