Nick and Amanda's Visit

Over a month ago, our friends Nick and Amanda came to visit from Baltimore. For those of you who don't remember Nick and Amanda, they taught with us in South Korea and they're super awesome.

They are planners so we knew all we needed was an open mind to explore. Our first stop was Salem, MA. It was a couple of weeks before Halloween and the place was packed full of people. We thought that Friday morning would be a good time because of school, but it was still busy.  

We visited the Salem Witch Museum and learned a lot of history there. It wasn't a typical walk-around museum it was a more like a show and history lesson.

Nick(Stevens) and Amanda being silly in the park. So did you know that the movie Hocus Pocus was filmed in Salem? I had no idea until Nick and Amanda told me... and Nick had never seen the movie (We forced him to watch it later on). I loved Hocus Pocus growing up, so it was fun for me to see the sites and then watch the movie again.

The school from the movie.

Annoying that it's blurry, but this is the house where the kids live in the movie.

Now moving on....... we visited a TON of graveyards this weekend, among them were Mother Goose, and other famous people whose names escape me.

Let's see if you can figure out their 6 bee's??

Bewitched!

We did a ghost tour and we were told to take lots of pictures with our flash. Sometimes you can capture a ghost.. hahaha.. my ghost looks like a tomb stone.

Skeptical Nick looks skeptical

So sad the picture was blurry but had to post it anyway.. I dressed like this scary guy! So glad I found him for this picture!

After Salem we got home way late. Saturday we walked all over Boston doing the Freedom trail, library and the Boston Public Garden. Again Nick and Amanda know much more than me. Apparently this is a famous bench because it's in the movie
Good Will Hunting. They had to recreate the scene.

I found a famous story book statue and had my picture taken with a little girl who reminded me of our friends daughter, Reagan Talbot.

We finished our Freedom trail walk at the North Church and had our picture taken.  This church was really interesting because back in the day your family would pay a yearly "pew fee" to be able to attend church and you would be assigned a pew.  To conserve heat, these pews were built into boxes with tall walls.  Since patrons essentially owned their pews they would decorate them and furnish them like their own homes to make them comfortable and warm.  All we could think of was how nice this design would be in our churches for child control.

Last on the list was to visit the Harvard Library and see a really really old Bible (an original Gutenberg Bible). Turns out you have to be a Harvard student to get in. Guess who sweet talked a guard and two (male) students to take us to the Bible? Okay it was me :) We got in to the see the Bible and it was huge and old!

We had such a great time traveling more of our state/city with Nick and Amanda, they sure did teach us a lot! So glad you guys came to visit!