Salem Massachusetts

On Sunday we had a little bit

of "forced' family fun. 

:)

(to borrow that term from my neighbor)

I decided we would go to Salem Mass.

I mean what better time to go explore the witch hunts

than in October right?

Of course it was packed since the entire month

of October there is one thing or another going on.

Not to mention all the other people who thought the same thing I did.

Once we parked and got the kids out we/I had to decide what to do next.

Since of course much to my husbands dislike

we/I went without a plan.

I decided we would go to the Salem Witch Museum.

There is no flash photography in the museum 

which of course sucks for me since I wanted to show all of you.

Here are the few pictures I did take from before we began our tour.

Here is my complaint with the Salem Witch Museum...

When you go in you are packed into a room for a 

witch trial reenactment which I thought was 

maybe done by actual people.

Not so much more like creepy wax figures with a spotlight on them.

Not that the information wasn't great but turning off the lights and starting the creepy

witchy music scared a few kids and not just mine.

After the presentation we had to wait about 10 minutes in the gift shop

before going into the rest of the museum which was a circle with

more wax figures of the old fashion mid-wife, her herbs she used to heal,

a 'hollywood' witch, a time line and witch hunt progression explanation.

Overall the museum was not worth my time or money.

I think my kids would have learned more by me renting 

Salem Witch Trails movie or The Crucible.

Oh well you live and learn right?

On a positive note I did get some really cool pictures of an old cemetary

and other cool things in Salem.

while walking down a street with all kinds of vendors

and witches Carter spotted and asked for some fried dough.

Which to us Southerners is a funnel cake basically.

 It was yummy!

And you cant go to Salem without seeing a witch or two...