The Closest Thing To A Vacation

Ok, I know how badly all two of the readers of this blog have been wanting me to update, so... wish granted. I promised a blog about my trip to New Hampshire last week, and now I am following through with said promise. And let me just tell you, the trip was great. I loved it. I left early in the morning on Wednesday, May 27th, and arrived in New Hampshire around 5:00pm. Ben picked me up at the airport and it was SO great to see him again (I hadn't seen him in 5 weeks!) and then we went out to a steak dinner. After dinner we went back to his house and I met his Mom (who is quite possibly the most wonderful woman ever) and his little sister, Hillary, who I adore. The next day, we went out to Vermont to see the birthplace of Joseph Smith, which has a large memorial obelisk and a couple of the original stones from the house:





On Friday we went to Salem, Massachusetts to brush up on our Witch Trials history (but they try to stay away from the whole "witch trial" thing - I forgot what they preferred instead, something dumb). In Salem we saw some of the oldest graves in the United States and a bunch of really odd/creepy witchcraft stores, etc:



LOVE this picture. We got a little crazy with the pics in the cemetery









On Saturday we drove up the coast of Maine to a lighthouse with Ben's Mom and sister, then had a nice dinner and watched a movie:



On Monday Ben, Hillary, and I went to Boston, Massachusetts and walked the Freedom Trail, where we saw the graves of historic figures such as Samuel Adams, John Winthrop, etc., and old houses and statues having to do with Paul Revere, Benjamin Franklin, and the like:













Then on Tuesday morning we got up at 2:30 am (ah huh, that's right, 2:30 AM!) to catch our flight back to P-Town.



That's Ben at 3:00 in the morning while we waited for the airport to actually open up security... He wasn't happy that I was taking this picture, but I couldn't help it cuz he just looked SO cute!

So that's my trip in a nutshell. Like I said, I loved it and It was a great first encounter with the New England/East Coast Areas. I loved getting to know Ben's family better and getting to spend lots of time with him after being away from him for so long. And now we're both back in real-life. Oh well.