My wonderful New England and New York vacation (a 'little' long) - Pictures added

**rafferty** · October 10th, 2005, 12:25 AM

WOW! Sounds like you had a great time Brigitte! The Newark story cracked me up...and Malden isn't much better as you know from experience now! [img]wink.gif[/img] I think the touist place you went for Salme is the one everyone gets roped into and it really is quite chessey. Y=That is ashame too because the town of Salem is really quite and interesting place with many interesting people living there. My BIL lives there and just loves it.

You next trip should be to Washington DC. You could also go on to Williamsburg and see what it is all about. It is like Sturbridge, but I like it even better. The only bummer is NO AG Place! [img]redface.gif[/img]

Thanks for sharing about your great trip!

Shelly

**zap_sea** · October 10th, 2005, 12:34 AM

Congrats on visiting New England! And you got to go in time to see the foliage. I wish I could go back up there, especially to Newport. You should have visited Wickford. Its a cute, little fishing village just across the bay from Newport, they have great shops and some incredible history. (I used to live there so I'm partial to it.) Congrats once again and I hope you enjoy Josefina, I got her for my sister and she is gorgeous.

rolloverrover · October 10th, 2005, 12:46 AM

What a great post! I loved reading every word! You visited so many neat places, and saw so many interesting things. You saw things that I too have never seen in our country (someone else mentioned that in their post).

It sounds like your shopping excursions were very successful, AG-wise and non-AG-wise.

I'm glad you're now home, safe and sound! Thanks for sharing all your adventures!

**judiaci** · October 10th, 2005, 01:38 AM

I loved your post. It wasn't too long at all. You are very adventurous to do all that driving around NY. Coming from the Midwest, I only take cabs, mass transit or walk in big cities. I am so glad you had a wonderful trip.

**Momof2agfans** · October 10th, 2005, 02:45 AM

Thanks for sharing your wonderful vacation. I really enjoyed reading about it.

Loved the bit about the coat. I love a bargain too!!

Sounds like you got some wonderful things to take back in that "empty" suitcase!

**bgeurtz** · October 10th, 2005, 04:26 AM

Oh, your trip sounds wonderful. I grew up in that part of the country and you went more places than I ever did. Please keep up the long posts, it is so much fun to read about your adventures. [img]graemlins/rainbow.gif[/img]

**ErinGoBraugh** · October 10th, 2005, 09:57 AM

Whoa...sounds like an awesome trip. Ditto on the visiting parts of my own country that I have never seen before. I'm working on that though! [img]smile.gif[/img] I'm glad you had such a nice time, and I'm glad you found *something* to fill that suitcase...it would be such a shame to lug an empty suitcase home. [img]wink.gif[/img]

**dornroeschen** · October 10th, 2005, 01:39 PM

Thanks for all your lovely comments, it was truly a wonderful trip.

Originally posted by Ponydreamer:
...Certainly you bought more there than you are telling us about...your receipt was quite long. [img]graemlins/wonder.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Oh the list is certainly longer most of the items will be used for Christmas presents and other occassions - here is the full list:

Kirsten: Work Dress, Winter Skirt and Blouse, Snowshoes, Housecoat and Sockor, Sari, spare hair ribbons.
Kaya: apart from the doll and accessories which Kamilla will receive for Christmas I got the Jingle Dress and her food.
Kit: my sister's Christmas present with accessories and the birthday dress - my sister loves that dress.
other bits and pieces: Chocolate Cherry outfit, Coconut's Best Friend outfit and the matching T-shirt and pants for Kamilla, the store special Ski Trip outfit, AGP red sweater and red T-shirt, Coconut's Halloween Cat costume, her AG souvenir t-shirt and Statue of Liberty set, both CD's of the shows, souvenir flowerpot dish from the cafe and the hair care kit.
for my girls: Felicity's, Addy's and Josefina's Christmas dresses and Elizabeth's cape.

Originally posted by Kaileyfan1:
It sounds like you had a great time! I would love to meet you next year. Has Kamilla ever been to AGPNY?

Although Kamilla has been to NY before I ever went, it was well before AGP opened and we're very much hoping that we might take her there next summer, if our convincing her dad works out. Please keep your fingers crossed [img]wink.gif[/img]

Originally posted by TitanicLover16:
LOL Freeport huh!? Yup you must have driven past Portland, which is the biggest city in Maine, I LOVE LL Bean I always get my school bags their. If you drove through Southern Maine there is a good chance you drove though my town! But yes New England is VERY pretty here in the fall. The leaves are a bit late changing color this year but that is from the unusually warm September we had. If you want I could share some pictures of the leaves foliage.
[ October 09, 2005 08:36 PM: Message edited by: TitanicLover16 ]

We actually stayed over night on the outskirts of Portland and if your town is on the route of 202 then we might very well have driven through it.

On that note we found the signpostings rather lacking - you always had to know which the nearest town on your route was to find the right way, and I've seen maybe a total of 10 signs with milage to the next big towns. In Europe it's the other way - you have lots of signs pointing in the right direction and also giving the distance. Also that streets suddenly changed their numbers and after some miles back to the old number or you had some hidden sign pointing to the right street but you didn't see it and took the wrong turn. Well, at least that way we got to see some interesting places [img]wink.gif[/img]

Also as many said you haven't travelled so much of your own country, I think it's always that when you go to a foreign place you want to see as much as possible - there are so many places in Austria I haven't seen yet and many tourists have.

**Peachysweetdream** · October 10th, 2005, 03:09 PM

Wow, sounds like you had a pretty fantastic trip! Your story really made me smile at several points... definitely concur with the 'not leaving childhood' quip as well. [img]wink.gif[/img]

Welcome back home! [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img]