This is the second post covering our family vacation to the Northeast. If you missed the first post about our adventures in NYC, go HERE.
DAY FIVE: Boston
We LOVED Boston! So much history!! Such a fascinating city. Wish we could have had more time here. We sure did fit as much as we could into one day, though. It all started with a Freedom Trail tour. Joseph and I are HUGE Revolutionary War junkies, so we really enjoyed this.
Here is our tour guide, "Josiah Quincy." He did a fabulous job. The building he is in front of is the Massachusetts State House. We started the tour at Boston Common.
Granary Burying Ground
John Hancock's Memorial
Paul Revere's Memorial
Paul Revere's actual headstone.
Samuel Adams headstone.
Samuel Adams had the five men that were killed in the Boston Massacre buried here.
King's Chapel
Old City Hall
Old South Meeting House
Old Corner Bookstore (now Chipotle)
Old State House
Site of the Boston Massacre.
We had so much fun with our tour guide!
Faneuil Hall. Fun fact, there is a copper grasshopper vane on top of the building. It is cut off in this picture. Good way to make sure someone wasn't a spy was to ask them what flies over Faneuil Hall.
Quincy Market
Had the most delicious lobster bisque in a bread bowl from Boston Chowda at Quincy Market. Yum!
Love the Freedom Trail markers. The kids really enjoyed following the red brick line as we went from site to site on the Freedom Trail.
Paul Revere's home! Kids were excited to see this. They know all about his "Midnight Ride" with William Dawes and Samuel Prescott.
The neat streets of Boston.
We were all excited to get a connoli from Mike's Pastry.
Inside. Look at all the cannoli options!!
Worth a picture of its own.
Enjoying a rest while we eat our cannolis.
Look at that grin.
Inside the Old North Church. This is where the lanterns were hung to signal how the British would be coming. "One if by land. Two if by sea."
Old North Church from the outside.
Another trail marker, just because I really like them ;).
The USS Constitution was closed the day we were there, so we couldn't go on it, but we did get to see it and go into the USS Constitution Museum.
A model of the USS Constitution.
Pulling livestock on-board.
Cleaning the deck with stone, also called Holystoning ;).
Sleeping in hammocks.
Playing with food.
Having fun!
The USS Constitution
Boston Skyline
Such pretty buildings. I took several pictures of buildings and homes on this trip. We were in the EAST! The very inspiration for our own home when we built it. Joseph and I are both in love with Colonial style homes :).
Our last stop of the day was to see the Bunker Hill Monument where the famous Battle of Bunker Hill took place. There was lots more we wanted to do in Boston, but just didn't have the time and couldn't really do it all with the kids. Just going to have to go back some day...
DAY SIX: Plymouth
On this day we got up early and headed to the Plimoth Plantation. Plimoth is an old fashioned spelling of Plymouth just in case you thought I was spelling it wrong ;). The plantation is a place where you can see and experience what the old Pilgrim village would have looked like and also how the Wampanoag lived. So amazing!!
A Wampanoag wetu.
Inside the wetu!
Winter wetu that would have been built in a Wampanoag village inland during the colder weather.
Getting to learn about the Wampanoag was really neat. This gal is actually from the Apache tribe, but portrayed a Wampanoag woman from the 17th century. So neat to ask her questions and find out about how the Wampanoag lived in the 1600s.
Grinding corn into cornmeal.
This guy was Cherokee.
Such a pretty day at the Pilgrim colony site.
Love these replicas of 17th century colonial homes.
It was fun to visit with the actors and actresses that portrayed different Pilgrims that came over on the Mayflower. They were very informative if you asked them the right questions and were really in character.
Inside a 1600's Pilgrim home.
The cute gardens!!
Getting to play dress up!
This guy was fun! We missed getting in on the march, but caught the tail end when he was leading them into "battle."
Anthon was just so cute looking at the small Mayflower replicas in the shop window. We were bummed that the actual Mayflower replica that you can go on was offsite getting repairs while we were there.
The animals on the plantation.
We went into the town of Plymouth for some seafood dinner and found these fun lobsters everywhere. The kids each had to take turns getting a picture in front of one.
We saw Plymouth Rock! It is not very big or exciting, but neat to see this land-marker and think about what it stood for.
And that ends the second leg of our trip. Vermont is next...
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