Boston, MA (USA)

[cross country meet - Franklin Park, Boston]

Falmouth, MA (USA)

[cross country meet - Falmouth]

Somerset, MA (USA)

[cross country meet - Somerset]

Summer Trip to the White Mountains - Day 3

[trip to White Mountains with David E and friends from COJ]

Summer Trip to the White Mountains - Day 2

[trip to White Mountains with David E and friends from COJ - while walking in a mountain stream, stepped on some glass - David had to take me to the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, NH to get stitches - (we met up with everyone else later in the evening)]

Summer Trip to the White Mountains - Day 1

[trip to White Mountains with David E and friends from COJ]

Spring Break Trip - Day 6

We started for home at 9:00.  We made good time and by 11:00 we were in New York City.  On the way to New York, my sisters and I played a license plate game.  My oldest younger sister (who is 12) won by about 50 points.  I saw an Ontario license plate.  We went through Connecticut and stopped for lunch in a Howard Johnsons' parking lot.  We had tuna fish sandwiches.  Then we went inside the Howard Johnsons and I watched kids play video games.  We went into Rhode Island after I had skillfully directed my dad out of a 3 mile traffic jam by taking a side road shown on the map.  We then decided to leave the road we were on and go to scenic Rt. 1 (interstate highway).  Then we got lost on the side roads.  Then we found our way to a road that my dad knew because we had lived in Rhode Island for a few years.  We went through Wickford to where we had once lived and we walked around in the town.  Then we drove home and ate at Papa Gino's.  Finally we got home.  So ends my trip and it was a nice one too.  Oh, by the way, we got home at about 7:00.  It took a real long time to get from N. Y. City to home, huh?!

Spring Break Trip - Day 5

Today we were going to go to Sesame Place but it was closed.  However, they gave us complimentary tickets so that we can go there whenever we want (or can).  Instead, we went to Washington's Crossing Park (this is in Trenton and is part of the way Washington went with his troops in the Revolutionary War). Then we went to New Hope, a city on the other side of the Delaware River from Trenton.  We got ice cream and walked around town.  Then we went home [to the hotel?] and later watched a movie "The Sword in the Stone".  Tomorrow we go home.  I have been working on my computer program and it is turning out good.  It will be a space game that is done by random numbers that you pick to see your future.  It has a lot of graphics.  I am going to try it out on the Apple at school.

Spring Break Trip - Day 4

Today I went to the U.S. Mint.  We saw how they (the people at the Mint) make the pennies, dimes, nickels and quarters.  They also make half and silver dollars.  I bought a Franklin D. Roosevelt inauguration medallion.  It cost only 75 cents plus 5 cents of tax.  My sister Katy bought a medallion for John F. Kennedy.  My sister Carolyn bought one for Ronald Reagan.  Then we went to the Betsy Ross house and then to Christ Church where George Washington, Ben Franklin, the Marquis de Lafayette, Martha Washington and Betsy Ross attended services at least once.  Then we went to the Armed Forces Museum.  It was really neat.  The snow melted and the weather changed drastically and now it is nice.  We ate dinner at the Roy Roger Chicken Restaurant.  It got a bacon cheeseburger.  I hope we can stay tomorrow here and go to Sesame Place and that it is nice.

Spring Break Trip - Day 3

Shatze the dog is dead.  She had cancer and died while we were at Miss Harting's.  She died at 11:29 today.  There is a small snow storm outside.  It snowed all day.  We didn't do much today because of the weather.  We did go to Valley Forge, however.  Valley Forge is one of the best places to go when it snows.  With snow you get the feeling of the Winter of 1777-78.  We first went into the Visitor's Center and watched a slide presentation.  It told the history of Valley Forge's winter.  We then looked at the exhibits.  George Washington's tent (that he slept in) is there.  Afterwards we got in the car and drove around the Valley.  We stopped and went into the huts that are replicas of the Valley Forge huts.  They were cold and damp.  I sure wouldn't want to stay in one of these houses for the winter!  Then we went to George Washington's Headquarters, a small stone building near the Schuylkill River.  The Schuylkill River is the river that flows through Philadelphia.  Finally we went home [to the hotel?] and watched "Star Trek II".  Miss Harting has some pictures on the wall of her ancestors.  The man was on Washington's staff at Valley Forge!  Because of the snow we may not be able to do much more.  We are not going to get to go to Gettysburg.  Even so, it is great to relax!

Spring Break Trip - Day 2

When we woke up, there was snow on the ground! We went outside but it wasn't cold.  We got on the Penn. Turnpike and went to Oreland where Miss Harting lives.  We had cereal for breakfast.  Then Miss Harting took us to Philadelphia where we first saw the spot where Penn's House stood (William Penn founded Philadelphia).  Then we went to the Visitor's Center and watched a film about the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  After this we went to Franklin's Post Office.  I got an envelope that had a stamp that was canceled right there!  Then we went over to the house that Ben Franklin had owned.  Then we went into Franklin's Court and saw the spot where Ben Franklin's house was.  It is gone now but they have steel beams that show what it looked like.  Then we went into the Franklin Underground Museum.  It had a film and we saw a play that was put on by stationary figures.  Also, you could call people on phones and they (Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, etc.) would tell you what they thought of Ben Franklin.  Then we went over to the Liberty Bell Pavilion.  We touched the Liberty Bell and then we went over to lunch at the Old Stock Exchange Building.  It is called The Bourse.  It has lots of shops and we stayed there for a while.  Then we went to the Old Supreme Court Building.  Then after that we went over to Independence Hall.  It is an excellent building!  The tour guide was very informative.  After the tour we went into the Independence Hall gift shop.  After that we went into Congress Hall.  Then we went back to Miss Harting's house and had shish-kabab.  Then we went home [to the hotel] and watched "Breaking Away."

Spring Break Trip - Day 1

On [Sunday] it was a cloudy day on Cape Cod and it looked like it was going to rain.  But by the time we got to Rhode Island, it had pretty much cleared up.  We went down Rt. 6 (Cape Cod), then we got onto Rt. 195 that took us through Rhode Island and most of Connecticut.  This was connected to the Connecticut Turnpike which took us into New York.  We took various roads through lower New York and went across West Manhattan [through Brooklyn and across the Verrazano Bridge (the New York Marathon was run on this bridge)].  Finally we entered the New York Turnpike which was connected to the Jersey Turnpike.  This took us all the way to the Pennsylvania Turnpike.  Finally we reached Horsham, a city near Philadelphia.  We are staying at the Horsham Motel.  We got unpacked and went to visit an old friend of ours who lived with us in Rhode Island 11 years ago.  Her name is Miss Harting.  She has two dogs - one 11 (Shatze) and one 5 months (Simma).  She also has a cat named Mr. Kate.  He is 18 years old!  He was around when she lived in Rhode Island.  We ate dinner (tuna casserole) and had cake and ice cream.  We played the organ she has.  It has a drum that plays itself (of course the drum can't be seen).  I played with Simma while we reminisced about old times.  What a great day!  Tomorrow the excursion begins!