My Fall Trip-Part Two

        I said that I was going to tell you about my thoughts on this trip because it was the first one that I had in a long time where I actually felt calm but I still have some things to tell you about the places we saw. I will tell you about the cruise first and then tell you about the famous peoples' houses we also saw. Some of the pictures are up on computer if you want to read and compare them. Maybe about half of them are up now and the other half will be up by the end of the week. I promise.
         The cruise I was was on was on a small port boat on a lake in Maine. I said on a lake because I can't say or spell the name of the lake to where you could understand it. It was a luncheon cruise so that means we had lunch on the boat. It wasn't a fancy cruise at all. It was a cruise where we just had lunch and heard the captain talk about what we went passed and other things but you couldn't hear the captain very much. I will agree, though, it was just fun looking out on the lake and seeing the land and mountains pass by you. It was also very windy and that wind was very cold so we couldn't stay outside the cabin of the boat for long.
          The food on the boat was okay. They had choices to pick from and the choices were: turkey, pasta (which was really good), salad, bread roll, mashed up squash or mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce and also stuffing with a pudding cup for desert. It was like a Thanksgiving meal on a boat. For me, it was just nice a calm, just to get out on a boat and just feel the wind below against you, even if it was cold. It was just the feeling out on a lake again that I haven't been on for so long. Seeing beautiful water and mountains and trees. Just everything around us was beautiful. It was funny because right after we got off, there was a wedding party getting on the boat. I think they were actually having the wedding on the boat. Don't know if I would like that but hey, it's not my wedding so it's okay. That was about it on the cruise.
           Now for the famous buildings and houses we saw for famous people. We saw the Bushes' summer home on the port of Maine, almost near where we took the cruise. We saw Paul Revere's house in Boston. We saw the Kennedy's houses, all three of them, while we were on Cape Cod. We also saw the house that Rose Kennedy grew up in and the church that she grew up in and was baptized. I'm sorry but for a history freak like me this was all interesting, whether or not I liked them or knew little about them.
            We saw the Old North Point Church where it is said that Paul Revere saw the light from. It was really funny. They still had services in it but they left the inside like it was back then. The pews were actually square boxes. They are free now for anyone member to sit in but back then, in Paul Revere's time, if you wanted to become a member of that church you had to pay for a square boxed pew and the more you pay the church the closer up front you would get to the front. Back then, you could also decorate it however you wanted to but none of them are decorated now. That church had a really old but beautiful organ in back and I think it still worked.
           We saw JFK's memorial and it was a pretty and simple one. All it was was: close to the ocean and had a pretty view of it, seemed very calming, and fountain in the middle of this concret slab like a sidewalk to walk around.  It also had a small brick/stone wall with his picture in metal on one side and the president seal i mental on the other side. We just saw the old state house in Boston because I think it was still being used as a state house so we couldn't go in.
          I think that covers all of the sites that I saw on my Fall Trip. The next entry will be about what I learned on that trip both through everything we saw and just being with the people that I was with. Some very, very, very wise people. I had time to think on this trip so I will write about some of my thoughts. It felt good to get all my thoughts out and/or sorted out but you won't know what they are til next time.