Mom and Dad came to visit, aka Nanny and Papa. We bought whale watch tickets a while back and were excited to head up to Gloucester while they were here to use them. The plan was to go Tuesday and do the sights in Salem and then do the whale watch on Wednesday. Once it got closer the forecast was looking bad and even the whale watch people sounded skeptical that it would happen on Wednesday. We changed plans and moved our whale watch to Thursday--forecast: beautiful.
So Wednesday we headed up to Salem, MA. It was fun to see and experience, definitely a town that overcommercializes and is solely centered around witch hunts and whatnot.
First stop--visitor's center. Watched a movie on the witch trials. Pretty informative.
Afterwards, we ate lunch at the parking garage since it was easier than transporting the cooler. Here you find Annie doing one of her million dance moves. Man, she has awesome moves--and she knows it.
We headed to the Old Cemetery. Can't help but love an old cemetery.
Our letterboxing website told us there was a letterbox hidden in the cemetery. Here Matt and Dad are searching the clues--it was all in vain. No letterbox to be found. :(
Next to the cemetery is a little memorial set up honoring the 19 victims of the witch trials of 1692. There are 19 benches with names and dates engraved.
I think these 3 are sitting on one of the tributes. :)
The kids became junior rangers, we saw a few more things and then headed toward our hotel. On the way, I checked my phone messages and had one from the whale watch company. There was a storm out at sea that would make the ocean extremely rough the next day so they were cancelling our whale watch. AAAAAHHHHHHH! I was so bummed, probably more than the kids.
We stayed anyway and enjoyed hotel fun.
SWIMMING!
Day 2 (non-whale watch day) we headed to Gloucester anyway and went to Halibut State Park. It was beautiful.
Here's Nanny, Andrew and Annie on the trail leading to the reservoir.
There was a beautiful reservoir and then right behind it was the ocean.
From here, we followed a trail down to the Sea Rocks--fun times ahead b/c there was a letterbox hidden at the sea rocks. And we found this one!
Nanny and Papa
Lots of small tide pools and fun rocks to climb. It was a lot of fun.
From there we headed to Lynch Park in Beverly, MA before heading home. It had a small beach (kind of nasty) but a beautiful rose garden that overlooks the ocean/bay.
So pretty! A great 2 days even though we missed the part that should have been the highlight.
Hopefully there can be a whale watching post soon.
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I see some perfect Christmas card photos here (including Sue and Rick)!
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