A Day in the Life: New England Cruise

So this year is our 25th wedding anniversary (not until December) and we wanted to do something really fun for that occasion. Since traveling in December is kind of difficult, we decided to do a cruise out of New York. And we like to have others with us when we vacation, so we thought it would be fun to invite Kevin's parents to go with us. So this is a long picture post of our very fun cruise. We arrived in New York on Saturday afternoon to beautiful weather, considering when we left Boise it was a balmy 30 something degrees. New York was about 75. When we got there we took a cab to our hotel; taking a cab in New York is an experience in and of itself! I should have taken a picture of the stairway that led into our hotel, let me just say that it was pretty steep, and not only that, there were no elevators and we were on the third floor, Sorry Margaret & Gene:( . It was a bit of a work out, but we all survived.

We went to the play "A Tale of Two Cities". We weren't quite sure how it would be because it is a brand new play that just opened in September. The critics didn't like it so much, but the people's reviews were good. So we took our chances and we LOVED IT!

This is Kevin in the middle of a street market just off of Broadway. There were a ton of vendors.

On Sunday morning we had a while before we got on the boat, so Kevin and I ventured out and took a short walk to Central Park. It was such a beautiful morning and the park was so peaceful.

This was the first clock we saw when we got on the ship, and pretty much for the next 5 days that was how we felt!

Gene & Margaret ready for any 'mis' adventure!

The New York City skyline.

The beautiful Statue of Liberty. When we went by this the band started play "Proud to be an American" and it just gave me chills.

We were "freestyle" cruising so we didn't have to dress up. But we wanted to!

The harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Margaret & Gene up on the top of the double decker bus.

Kevin

Sandra with the guard in front of the Haifax Citadel. We saw him after the guard changed and he can smile.

Kevin on the grounds of the Citadel

We went to a glass blowing company and watched them blow some glass for a while then we went into the store. It was all beautiful crystal.

Sandra in front of the Maritime Museum. We found out about the great Halifax Explosion and I think we found some of my ancestors who were killed in that explosion. I'll have to have Teresa check on that.

St. John, New Brunswick, Canada

Me by the Reversing Rapids. Actually the rapids are to my left, and behind a rock!

If you look real close you can see me, Margaret & Gene up on our balcony on the 11th deck.

Boston, Mass. Mike's Pastry. What more do I need to say?

Margaret & Gene in front of Fanuiel Hall in Boston

Gene, with "Old Ironsides" aka The USS Constitution, in the back ground

We took a harbor curise in Boston and this was the boat we went on.

Our last stop of our cruise was Martha's Vineyard. In the city of Oaks Bluff is this little "village" of these gingerbread house cottages. I think there was about 300 of them. Cindy would love this!