VACATION 2024
Hello everyone! I’m back from my Halloween/Graduation Celebration/Anniversary trip! I’m experiencing some post-trip sadness as I come down from vacation-mode and am back at work. So I’m going to write this blog post about it
Mr. Geekula and I went to Boston for five days. It was my first time on an airplane, a train, and frankly the most signifgant amount of travelling I've ever done. It was also our first trip together even though this month will mark our 9 year anniversary. I've loved Boston and New England for a long time. Cheers has been my favorite TV show since I was 16, as cheesy as that sounds. I just happened to find a partner who's family is from outside of Boston. I got to go to the real Cheers Bull & Finch location and complete that pilgrimage. We took the train into Salem one day and we went to two NHL games since we're a Boston Bruins couple (they won both games btw!).
We went to the Boston Wicked Haunt Fest which was incredible. The people were so nice and it was great. I could only handle one of the haunted houses that night but it was really incredible and had amazing animatronics. I really regret not pushing myself to do one more but thems the brakes. I enjoyed the ambiance and the small army of skeletons.
We went to Salem for a day and did a bunch of Halloween stuff. It was absolutely incredible to be somewhere were an entire town actually celebrates Halloween (my town could NEVER). We thought that the crowds wouldn't be so bad since we were going early in the month but oh boy, the place was PACKED. I totally get that if you lived and worked in Salem that all the tourists would drive you crazy but God I wish I lived somewhere where once a year Frankenstein's monster comes out and occupies a street corner everyday. The Peabody-Essex museum was absolutely wonderful and had a ton of stuff relevant to my research into American whaling. Their exhibit on Spiritualism was also incredible! Sadly I lost my admission button somewhere in the dark of the International Monster Museum so we wouldn't go back in. But, the Monster Musem was super cute! They gave us a lantern and we went through looking at all the monsters and animatronics. They said I could take all the pictures I wanted but I only took one of Moth Man. We also went to Count Orlock's Nightmare Gallery which deals in Movie Monsters. It was absolutely fantastic but we weren't allowed to take pictures in the gallery. Which is sad, I was dreaming of taking a photo with the Creature from the Black Lagoon but oh well. The gallery had a ton of deep cuts to iconic B-movies but my favorite was the room with Barlow, the vampire from the orginal Salem's Lot mini-series, the Creepshow Father's Day cake moment, and Fluffy the Crate Beast. The lighting in that room was amazing and made it all feel so life-like. I really want to go back to Salem and be able to relax more and explore it really was amazing and we didn't even see half of it.
I desperately want to live in New England. People tend to scoff when I tell them that. But MAN...I live in the AMERICAN SOUTH. Being in a blue state was so fantastic. There was decent public transportation, it was cold and not broiling hot outside, you could actually get around without a car! No one up there expected extended pleasent small talk as if it were part of the social contract. UGH! Someone give me a livable wage and let me move up there I don't care where!!
I'm already pushing to plan another Halloween trip for next year. I either want to go back to Salem and make it a multi-day visit or visit Sleepy Hollow. I'm really pushing for Sleepy Hollow since it's America's other Halloween town, wish me luck.