and i know you'll be calling me soon, and if i don't answer i'm calling the moon

Well, today tony and i went salem...we didn't go to all the museums because i know that a lot of people that plan on visiting us want to go, and we thought that we would get bored with it...so we only went to the witch dungeon today... i had been there before in the past ( this life :) ) but i wanted him to see it...it is still very chilling and sad...it starts with a little play that shows how the Puritan judges believed every word that the girls accusing the witches said. then you take a tour into a model of what the actual dungeon looked like...they unearthed the actual spot in the 1950's but there was no historical society to preserve it, so all that is left is one beam of the building and it is displayed in the model dungeon. the real site where the women and men were kept prisoners is now buried deep under the ameritech building...i really wouldn't want to work there...anyway we didn't take photos of the place ( sorry) because it is really dark in there, and last time i tried to take photos they didn't turn out too well.
we walked all over the town and amazingly enough did not buy tons of stuff...mostly i was just deciding on what i'll buy when we bring people there...
we were going to check out the house of the seven gables...the house where the turner's lived ( very rich sea captain and his family it was built in 1668) also the whole basis of the book the house of the seven gables...but it costs $11 bucks to get into the grounds, and we figured that we would be back so we wanted to save some surprises for next time... we walked through the wharf and saw the custom house where the taxes were paid on goofs brought over from other countries...by the time we got that far though, everything on that side of town was closed...the town rolls up its sidewalks around 6pm, except in october i guess...
oh yeah..i forgot before we went to the museum, we walked through the cemetery in salem where the judge hathorne (judge who sentenced all the accused to death) and the doctor who reported that the girls making the accusations were not sick, only frightened by the devil...it was really interesting to see stone markers from the early part of the 1600's...on the way home we saw the most amazing almost full moon...the picture above is the best shot we could get...
one we got home, we walked to the T station and went to chinatown for some delicious vietnamese pho! yum...word to the wise...do not eat this noodle soup when wearing black...some of the pictures that tony took are of my shirt where the noodles fell from my chopsticks and the starchy broth made little white marks all over the front of my shirt...
we'll send you all the invite to kodak galleries to see the photos that we took in salem, oh yeah and our place...that email will be coming soon!