Ramada Inn Rolling Green Andover

... a gingerbread house. I will have to add these pics when I get access to remove them from the camera.......It took something like 70 pounds of sugar to make it.

After lunch we headed home and started to pack for the departure.
Everyone was a little tired and at one point I was the only one awake looking at booking accommodation in Boston for tonight.
On the couch was Andy, Krista, Linda and Cole (Dog). I'm not sure who was the loudest snoring at one point, but it kept me ...

Our last days in New York were spent manically trying to squeeze in everything that we had missed during the week. We caught the Staten Island Ferry and got some good shots of the Statue of Liberty, went walking down Fifth Avenue to see if we could find the things we needed in the shops and we took a stroll through beautiful Central Park. We went out local on Friday then out to the city on Saturday, both were highly enjoyable in different ways, but hung out with ...

loved the flight, and the hospitality of the BA business class experience. I even had a facial as I though it would be done by a dolly. Then some big gay guy came out to 'facial' me. I was petrified. I have to say that he did a really good job though!!

I REALLY made the most of the free champagne and wine on the flight too. Legs were a bit wobbly on my return to the good old US and A!

... out at night.  A member of the public called the police worried that it may have rabies.  I got within 6 ft of it and I have to confess it did look a little unusual.  Anyway we continued down another wharf when the police car arrived and next we heard a gun shot.   Our first shooting in North America.!!!

Then off to Marble Head, which is really, just around the corner from Salem.  Her we had New England Clam Chowder very ...

... foreign tourists in Japan (many of them Chinese, I found after I suffered the abuse of an old Chinese woman screaming at me in Chinese (she thought I was Japanese...) to take her picture correctly) who I was sorely tempted to punch in the face. But the shopkeepers and locals put up with it and refuse to make a scene, which must take total self control, but must also build a lot of resentment inside, day after day. For me, not crossing the empty street until the light turns and ...

... I lost some cash and a camera and a lot of energy and did not go to venezuela as planned but now I got a new, even better camera at a very good deal and I gained a lot of experience ;) Btw, do not tell my mom anything about this;) I maybe don't need to mention that I don't have any pictures from TT but you  can see here a few that Andrey made. Otherwise TT is a very nice country with very friendly people and some very shameless ones (especially women) too. I have a little ...

... tomorrow, but I've decided to skip that in order to have two full days in Boston cause there's too much I want to see. The hostel here is huge and a lot different than the DC one...way bigger for one, and there are private bathrooms here, which I now consider a luxury after the DC shared bathrooms. Anyway, I planned on exploring a bit, but I am so tired that I am stumbling into stuff...I look like I'm drunk. I have no problem ...

... I suppose, anyway.

So
my time in Cape Town was essentially spent shopping and doing the
things One Must Do; going to Table Mountin, seeing the Waterfront, the
National Gallery, and wine tour in Stellenboch (about 45 minutes from
Cape Town). We did the wine tour yesterday which was the most fun,
because South Africa is known for their pinotage, a hybrid grape of the
pinot noir and cinsault, and chenin blanc. We went to five wineries,
and since none ...

... was flying out of Boston, which is like 8 archies and 10 other kids with various majors. This will be DJ's second semester in Florence, he went last spring. He'll be a big help! Nick Lively is flying for the first time, apparently he decided to go big or go home for his first time on a plane! I know some of you at home would **** your pants if this was your first flight! Others that you'll hear me talk about are: Kara, Ash (or Arod), Dana, Kelly, Nick, Buzzy ...

... today, the oldest written constitution in effect in the world! Well sure, it's been amended about a hundred times, that's still pretty steady stuff. I exit front to sounds, to church bells ringing, traffic rushing past the square where cows once grazed, skyscrapers just beyond it all, framing history. So, I'm impressed. I'm here on Beacon Hill, and time for lunch. Yes, it's a hill, though not as high as once, they lopped the top off, used as LANDFILL to make the place they ...