Our East coast adventure!

Like most vacations, ours started out different than we had expected. We purchased our plane tickets last fall when we found a great price for them. And since then we had been making plans for your stay in CT. We planned on our plane leaving at 11:58pm on Friday May 15th and arriving in New York at 5:30am. upon arrival Alishia and Grant Peterson were going to pick us up, let us sleep at their house for a few hours, and then we would tour around New York that day. Well, the day finally came and we were ready to leave for CT; my parents dropped us off at the air port and we went to check in. When we got to the check in counter the nice lady kindly told us that we were a day early! I did not believe her and she had to show me on my flight plans where it said that we leave Saturday at 11:50pm and not Friday like I had thought it was. Discouraged and laughing at ourselves, I pulled out my phone to call my parents and tell them to come back. While I was calling them the nice lady behind the counter said that for $ 0.40 we could leave a day early, and we would be guaranteed seats. We took the offer and we were so grateful that things worked out so nicely!
When we got into New York the Grant was so kind to come get us at 5:30am. He took us back to his house on Staten Island and we crashed for a few hours. When we woke up the Peterson's took us on a tour of New York City. We did not see much there, but it was a fun adventure. The next day was Sunday and we went to the first hour of church before taking a ferry, subway, and finally a train to CT where Malisa (my sister), and her husband Dave picked us up. It was so wonderful to see them!!! We relaxed the rest of the day, and our adventure began again on Monday when James, Malisa, and I went to the Yankee Candle Factory. It was really big and we bought a black cherry candle. On Tuesday we all left for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was a very large city with many sky scrapers, but it was not as busy as New York City. People walked more leisurely, and it was more of a slow paced city, I liked it a lot!. While we were there we visited a museum called the Mutter Museum. It is a physicians museum filled with a whole bunch of creepy and weird medical conditions. here is a link to the museums site and make sure you take their virtual tour: http://www.collphyphil.org/mutter.asp . We also saw the Liberty Bell, the outside of Independence hall, and the constitution museum where we took pictures of bronze sculptures of those present at the signing of the constitution.
When went back to CT on Thursday and stopped at the Twelves bar and grill. The name of the restraint is a big deal because Malisa and Daves last name is Twelves. So we ate at the Twelves restaurant, sat at table 12 with the Twelves, while James ate the Twelves burger for $12! Wow that was intense!
Friday was a lazy day, and the highlight of my day, and possibly the whole trip, was my trip to the Hill-Stead museum. I am a huge fan of Van Gough, Monet, Degas, and all the other impressionist painters! At the museum they had original Monet and Degas paintings. I almost cried when I saw them because I could see the brush strokes and feel what they felt and picture them there painting them. Oh i was over joyed!
Wow this blog is getting way too long! I think I'm going to simplify the rest of our trip :)
Well, during the rest of our trip we went to Providence, Rhode Island and saw an artist water/fire show called Water Fire and it was beautiful! We went to the Mystic sea port in Connecticut, were I bought a lot of fun souvenirs. Then on our last day we went to the Temple in Boston, Massachusetts, it was absolutely beautiful, and a wonderful way to end a vacation!
The best part of this whole vacation was that we spent the whole time with Dave and Malisa! we love them and miss them already! (thanks for such a great time guys!)
Here are some pictures from our vacation: in order from top to bottom, Hill-Stead Museum, Eating at the Twelves restaurant, me and James eating out, James with a bronze statue and the constitution museum, the liberty bell, and James and I at the Boston Temple.