Salem With a Good Ol' Friend

I took my parents to the airport last Friday and as soon as they were about to board the Airport Bus Shuttle, I saw my friend Anette coming off that same bus with her parents. We exchanged hugs and introduced our parents to one another... It turns out she and her family were in Boston on their family vacation! I ended up hanging out with her and her family for a few days this week.

Anette and I met exactly 4 years ago in Madrid Spain. We both attended UCs and enrolled in the same foreign exchange program to study abroad. We met the first day we arrived in Madrid because the program paired us up as hotel roommates. 

Here's a picture of us traveling Spain in 2007:

Market Place in Cordoba, Spain

It turns out her family is also into historical tours and site seeing. So they invited me to Salem, Massachusettes this week. And of course I went. Hey! School hasn't started yet...

Here's Anette and I in Salem four days ago:

Salem Town Square, Massachusetts

TV Land created an honorary sculpture of Tabatha from Bewitched to go in the city's town square. Since the town is known for the infamous witch hunts, they created a sculpture of TV's most famous witch.

Salem was raining the entire time! And it was just as gloomy and eerie as you could imagine it to be.

Witch Trials Memorial
 When accused witches were hung, they were not given a burial or grave
so the bodies were thrown into the harbor. This is a memorial that was made
to honor the 19 innocent people that were hung during the witch hunts of 1692.

The Witch House

The 17th century home of Salem witchcraft trail judge Jonathan Corwin. It's now a historical museum.

Townsperson walking in the rain...
She was an actress, playing in a re-enactment of a witch hunt trial later that day.

Anette's familia standing in the rain.

Anette and her broken umbrella mid afternoon.

Finishing our day with some tapas and sangria at a local Spanish Restaurant!