Boston Day 4 - Tuesday

Tuesday we car in the car and drove to Salem. This was a beautiful old church across the street from the visitors center there.

Salem was not at all what we expected. First of all, Salem Village is where the witch hunt began. Salem Seaport area is where all the tourist things are. The trials took place in the seaport area, but all the activity before that was actually taking place in Salem Village, which doesn't appear to esxists anymore. It's called Danver now. We found all this out at the end of the day when we were watching a high quality film on the witch trials. Ha! Itwas very informative, though. Michael told me that he had seen one of the "actors" on another documentary he had seen on the History channel. Another Ha!

The first house that we visited was the witch house. It wasn't acutally the house where a "witch" lived. It's the house where the judge who tried the witches lived.

After leaving there we walked through the Salem downtown area. It kind of reminded us of an older/non-updated franklin with a lot of witch shops, tarot cards and palm readers. yuck!

We walked through there to get to the wharf area. On the way to the wharf we passed the cemetary where one of the Mayflower passengers was buried. There was also a memorial for the 21 people who were hanged during the with trial. Oh, 20 hanged. 1 was pressed to death.

We stopped for lunch at a place along the wharf. Took way too long to get our food! Then we headed to the House of Seven Gables - which now has 4. Apparently, there were 2 additions to the original house, then another owner wanted to make it look more like the style of the other houses and took one of the additions away. Have you ever heard of someone wanting their house to be smaller?!

Right across the street from the house is the 1st candy company in America, so we had to go in! They had a giant chocolate Easter bunny that cost $599 dollars and was 40 something lbs of chocolate. We did not buy that, however, we did get a sampling of their candy.

We walked back to the visitor's cener and ended our day with a film about the witch trials. It was called: Salem Witch Hunt, Examining the Evidence. I learned a lot, since I did not love history in school.

We drove back to Boston, via a suburb that we didn't intend to go to. Gotta love technology. Our intent was to go to a Legal Seafood near our hotel. After driving an hour our way we eventually ended up at the Legal Seafood in Boston neat the aquarium. Kevin and Em both had their first whole lobster. While sitting there, I was looking out the window and saw a rat run across the street. Ack! I'm sure that we have then in Nashville, I've just never seen one.

Today, it's the JFK library and possibly the aquarium or Fanueuil Hall. Not getting in as much as we think we can in a day!