Salem Vacation

This is post that should definitely have made its way here back in August, but better late than never. Anyways Jay and I decided that amongst all of our wedding planning we needed a little break and we made our way up to Salem, Mass. However, when I think Salem I think Halloween so maybe now is the perfect time for this post. Anyways, since Jay and I wanted to escape form the world all well most of the pictures that we took were of our friend Mort. So to document our trip the places and thing we wanted to take pictures of we put Mort in.

So meet Mort!

After our drive up to mass we decided to take a little detour at a par where Mort decided he wanted to ride a bike.

As we kept on driving Jay actually spotted this tank on the side of the rode, so of course we had to take a picture, and Mort just had to steal the spotlight and hop into Jay's picture

Here is Mort, in his travel case which coincidentally is also Jay's camera bag!

Then as we were walking through downtown Salem, Mort spotted a Rita's which is a super awesome Italian ice place. They were even highlighting a new flavor "Swedish fish" which of course Jay and Mort were both very excited about!

Then Jay wanted to get a new hat so we ran into a hat store and Mort had fun trying on just about all the hats here are just a few!

So when we left the hat store we found this super cool fire alarm post that was just chilling outside in public.

Mort liked collecting stickers and after visiting the witch museum wanted to pose for the camera!

At the end of the first night Jay wanted to take a walking ghost tour, and Mort and I were both a little nervous about what we might see. Lucky for Mort he could cover his eyes, I had to keep my eyes open so I wouldn't fall on my face.

On day 2 of our trip, we decided to go see "cry innocent" which is a play that deals with the Bridget Bishop trial. Whats cool is that the beginning of the play takes place on the cobblestone streets in the center and then after they capture Bridget they drag her to the court house and as the actors shout out they are going to see a hanging everyone in the streets starts crowding together to go see the trial play out. The whole trial is very participation driven which was quite awesome. Now Mort not to be left out as we were running with the crowds to the court house he grabbed one of the townsmen and snuck a picture with him.

To end our weekend away we made one of the most important stops of the day at the one and only Ben & Jerry's!!!! I think Mort had a little to much fun though

We can not wait until our next vacation away and Mort has been planning our next weekend away so keep checking in for Mort's next adventure!

~Maggie

Germanfest with Family

Every year my cousins from Germany come down to visit and this year my mom had the bright idea of having a German themed party in honor of her family's heritage. So there was food, desert, and of course a lot of fun! Now since Jay and I are not big fans of German food we found ourselves eating with the kids and enjoying the ever delectable chicken cutlets and Portuguese spaghetti (Jay isn't the only pork chop in our family hence the Portuguese spaghetti)! Anyways while we weren't eating I ran around and snagged a few shots of my cousins and thought they were so cute that they just needed to be posted!!!

So lets start with a few of the younger boy cousins... man o man these boys are a trip!!!

Seriously look at how much fun they have!!

Now on the other side of the spectrum the girls are much more subdued but totally love to have fun!

The adults on the other hand are just a crazy bunch. This picture actually features my mom with all of her siblings!

And if you put the boys the girls and some of the adults together no one wants to focus... hahaha

Here is an up close and personal picture of my cousin Mikey who is from Germany!!! He is such a cutie!!!

Now Mikey, kept trying to hide from the camera and definitly was not going to be caught smiling, so my uncle Andy helped coax a fun face by tickling Mikey!!!

And again the girls in my family are much more up for smiling at the camera here is Mikey's sister Franciska!

And I just had to throw this picture in because I couldn't believe it! Well I guess I can!!! Anyways my parent's have an adorable Brittaney spaniel named Penny and 10PM is her bed time (ironically our puppies night night time is 10pm as well) so since everyone was in the dining room she didn't go and hop into my parent's bed she want and cuddled herself into a dog bed in the corner of the dining room and my mom put a blanket on her and she fell asleep!! I find it so funny that people treat there dog's like they are human :0)

I can not wait until next year!!! Haben Sie ein Haus der sicheren Reise! Tschüss Unkel Mike, Franciska, and Mikey!!

Maggie