I can explain!

...no I can't lol

Yo I've been BUSY! Teachers College can be very hectic! Weeks fly by and days move quick and minutes are uncountable! 

In my eyes yesterday was Halloween, but since then I've finished my first teaching block (WHICH WENT AWESOME) and I've just about finished my second round of school. Winter break starts Friday and I've got plenty of nothing planned and I am excited about it! 

It's unbelievable how ones brain works and is constantly working and unless you consciously take a moment to remember to take a moment, you might not take it.  

Does that make sense?

Either way! We are busy people with busy minds and busy lives.

This is all I can write for now because I have 2 papers to do before this Friday.

 I PROMISE I'll write a good posting during Christmas break :)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS ER'BODY!

Day 4 - Boston in a day

Last day ladies and gents!

It has been an amazing, exciting, riveting, exausting and hilarious weekend spent in Massachusetts with my Sister and my Cousin!

This morning we were graced with an extra hour of much needed sleep because of day light saving time! Book thrilled!

We packed up and left our Airbnb at 8:30 am and went directly to starbucks. Typical at this point ;)

We went to our last stop in Salem which was the Salem Witch Memorial. It has all 19 victims names on stones with flowers on them. 

This was unbelievably moving for some reason and really made the stories and the atmosphere unbelievably real! These were real people with real lives and families and jobs who were accused, tried and hung. Witches or not, their lives were taken from them unjustly.

This is Sarah Goods plaque. I did a monologue on her in my third year of university and she is absolutely fascinating! She was the second women to be accused.

From this moving memorial we made our way to the one, the only, HARVARD UNIVERSITY !

We went to the campus store and then bought tickets to a student run tour service where we got an up close and personal view of the school and all its history!

Our first stop on the tour were Johnston Gates!

Our main goal was to recreate the Gilmore Girls scene! 

SUCCESSFUL! 

The most expensive building on Campus! The security box!

The pee-covered-lucky-shoe of the Harvard statue! 

My illegal photo of their Hogwarts- esque dining hall !

The history filled Library which goes underground as well!

Facebook was invented in this house!

Natalie Portman dormed here and so did Matt Damon, which is also where he wrote Goodwill Hunting!

The Lampoon house! The office and secret society of the editors and writers of Harvards comedy magazine, that Conan OBrien once ran!

After our informative and historic tour or Harvard we went to the Boston Public Garden (which was BEAUTIFUL!) to find Robin Williams bench.

This was another moving moment for us as we recently found out that a family friend of ours passed away and was struggling with similar issues as Robin Williams. 

We wrote a message on the bench and took a moment to show our respects and take a quick photo. 

Still sad about Robin Williams :(

The bench was inspiring though to see the hundreds of messages from complete strangers written to a man they've never met but still cared so deeply about.

After this beautiful experience we continued to wonder around Boston for our last 3 hours in the city.

We wrapped up and went to Logan Airport where we found that our flight is DELAYED!!!!!!!! Ughhhhhhhhh 

I teach tomorrow and have about 6000 things to do tonight, but an hour behind schedule is fine I guess ahha

So this is where I end our weekend

journey to the east end of the country. 

New England, it's been a time! See Ya Soon!

 

Salem, MA - Day 3!

As many might know, my sister and I have been planning this trip to Salem for the past 15 years with the mere intention to see the filming locations of Hocus Pocus, our FAVORITE Halloween Movie!!!

*insert que to go download, rent, buy, and watch this movie!*

Bette Midler claims that this was her favorite movie to film even 21 years later!

So here it is, our self guided, rainy day, Salem Hocus Pocus movie tour!

The rest of the photos are on the camera, but for the most part I fan-girled for a large part of the day!! 

As it was raining virtually all day, our agenda was a bit different!

We went to Target

We went to Starbucks (about 5 times!)

Red cups already....

We stopped for lunch in this Amazing little family owned italian restaurant! I highly recommend it!!!!

We got manicures and pedicures!

And we ended the evening with a performance at The house of Seven Gabel about the Hanging Judge in Nathaniel Hawthornes birth home

 And some Mexican food to finish it off!

Halloween here in Salem really ends at the end of the night! The atmosphere around the town is entirely different from one day to the next! And they also clean up really well!!!

Tomorrow we're going to head out early and spend the day in Boston !

Happy All- Saints- Day!

Haunted Happening Day 2! From noon on...

I can honestly say that things got about 90000000 times more hectic as the day went on!

After lunch we kept walking through the streets to go to see A performance of 'Cry Innocense' which is an interactive performance of the story of Bridgett Bishop and the court the second time tay she was tried as a Witch!

Fun fact! This theatre soace is located in the Old Town Hall which is EXACTLY where Bette Midler and the girls performed 'I've put a spell on you' in Hocus Pocus!!!!! I was dying.

We moved on down the street towards The House of the Seven Gabel. So much history in this house! Please go google it!

On the walk there is where I began to see  some of the amazing costumes

From here I naturally insisted that we need to stop at Wynotts Wands which is a Harry Potter inspired location. I was fan-girling all over the place!

And next door was...

We felt that after all this histeris we should stop for a coffee

Adorable right?!

Then we made it to the HotSG!!!!

No pictures were allowed inside so you'll just have to imagine it all from this lively picture I took of the back corner of the house haha!

After this we RAN back to our house to get tickets for the night walk we had booked....then...umm....we couldn't find them...

So after running various kilometers and dodging through crowds and being elbowed in the face we just could not find the meeting place for this group! It was 20 minutes later that we gave up.. And then causally found them about 2 minutes from us. What are the odds!

Just SOME of the haunted houses in Salem! Do you see anything spooky in the windows?

After this was time for food as we were STARVED. We went with the healthy choice of chicken finger, fries and I got a corn dog to top it off!

We walked around for a while and did a surprise photo shoot which I will post about later ahah 

We ended the night with 10:15 fireworks to commemorate the evening! Salem also cleans off the streets at 11. You are literally not allowed to roam the night or you will get a ticket! Crazy! 

So after the fireworks we went to our last stop which was the Salem Witch Museum!!

Amazing show and very informative notes on the history and evolution of Witches! 

This ended at midnight and we ended up home and in bed after that. 

And amazing and exausting day! Let's not even talk about how much my feet hurt ahah!!

Hope everyone had an amazing Halloween!

Happy November 1st!!