North Shore revisited-Salem

Ever since my mom saw the pictures from my trip to the North Shore she has been wanting to go. Last Thursday we were finally able to. Its hard because the weather isnt always nice here-so we have to look for the good weather days and plan in advance. Well, Thursday was a great day. The weather reports called for sun but isolated T storms. We decided isolated T storms wouldnt be too bad. Well- we needn't have worried anyway because there were actually NO T storms the whole day. It was sunny and warm the whole time. woohoo!
I was driving, and I mapped out how we were going to go in the beginning-but this being New England-NONE of the streets are marked so we couldnt always find what we were looking for. I wanted to take 127 around cape anne-but we never found 127-until the end of the trip. It was hidden off to the side on a road with a crazy intersection-- and you can only see it coming from one direction-ughh!. But, we ended up stopping and exploring in two cities: Salem and Marblehead. It ended up being a spontaneous adventure. So it turned out alright in the end. And we are planning on going back to do the trip around cape anne on 127 next time-since now we know where it is.
Anyway here are some pics of the trip. First off-Salem!

Nathaniel Hawthorne's house of Seven Gables from the back

The Friendship again-and the pier with the lighthouse

Salem Customs house

We went in the witch museum. It was ok. They have a whole presentation you can watch and then another exhibit about perceptions. I wanted to learn more about the history though.

She's a witch! burn her!

store in salem

a mariner built this in 1771

West India Goods store