My Fall Trip

         I am back from my week and a half Fall trip on the east coast. I got back a day ago but I have been busy catching up with family. It was a blast and I got to see some pretty neat and dreaming things. I wish I could tell you all about it in one entry but it will take more then one. It might be all I talk about this month or these next two weeks. I went with an old friend that could be my grandma, in fact that is what I called her because I didn't want to explain the whole story to strange people. She was actually my old babysitter and I went because her husband passed away last year.
         It was a strange feeling since I just lost my last grandma a couple of months ago but then again it was a good feeling I still had a person that age that could be my grandma if need be. Anyways, I have learned some life lessons from the trip and from her that I want to write about but now I am just going to write some about what we did on the trip. That is easier to understand and it is just the background that might help later one. We saw 4 major landscapes and then a lot of memorials.
         The first one we stopped and saw was the beautiful Niagara Falls. I went on the boat called "The Maid of the Mist" and got wet with the mist of the Falls. I had to wear a plastic raincoat to wear on the boat. You know the beautiful pictures of the Falls with the rainbow? Well, I got to see that rainbow and got a beautiful picture of it but it doesn't do justice of the real thing. I took a lot of pictures of it.
          Next, we stopped at my favorite place, which was the Vermont Teddy Bear Company. Yes, I did buy a teddy bear from there. It, even, looks like a cow but a cute cow. It was just a break from sitting on the bus so we didn't get to do much. There was a tour that we could do but we didn't have time. We just shopped if we wanted to.
         Then, after that stop, we went to a place where they made maple syrup in VT. It was out in the mountains and almost on top of one. It was really neat because you could look out and see a long way. It was just pretty because it was Fall in the mountains so there were colored leaves all around this little syrup place. We listened to the main owner, when we got there, about how the maple syrup was made. It was pretty interesting! I also got to take all the grades of syrup too and all of them were good.
         We got to stop in Plymouth City at the Mayflower 2 and Plymouth Rock. The Mayflower was like a short museum we went through. They had people dressed up and on the boat like back in the day and they had to talk like that and we had to ask questions that could only be about the 1620s. The top of the boat was fine but the 2nd/bottom of the boat really smelled of mold or mildew like it would have in the days. I thought it was also neat because it had a Bible on one of the tables on the boat. The Rock was just a rock with the year on it.
         On the last to 2nd day, we got to go to "The Breakers" House in RI and that was the house that the Vandervilts lived in. It was so amazing and beautiful! I took a listening tape tour of the house so that was kind of different too. It was too decorated to be a real house but it was. I took a picture out of a window where you could see the ocean from. That is the only thing I could take pictures of but it was all so pretty. There were real gold in some rooms. There were marble walls in some rooms. There were pictures on the ceiling. It had a lot of decorations from a lot of different countries that were given to the people that lived there. It was a house that just took your breath away! I could have spent all day there just standing in one place and room and look at everything because it was so detailed!
         Then on the last day we went to Hershey, PA and of course stopped at the Hershey Chocolate Factory. We got to ride a little train inside the Hershey building that took us through the journey on how they made the chocolate. It was fast because it was made for little children but it was interesting at the same time. I did buy a bear from there too that had Hershey Chocolate World on it.
          I have some other activities and things I want to tell you about that I did but I think it will have to wait until later this week. I went on a cruise and saw some famous peoples' houses/summer homes along with famous buildings and memorials but that is for later this week. There are also a couple of special things that I did with just my friend that I want to share so stay tuned this week for that entry.