Connecticut State Capital Connecticut has a beautiful capital that was interesting and enjoyable not just for its architecture but it had several pieces of art and artifact that we all found fascinating. The most exciting artifact was a large chunk of a tree that had four civil war canon balls and one unexploded canon artillery shell (explosives were removed before being displayed). It was a fascinating site! The interior of the capital consisted primarily of ...

New Jersey State Capital Our first impression of the area that the New Jersey State Capital is in - it's a pit! Honestly a block from the capital we saw several men whom looked quite entrepreneurial with goods that were of questionable legality!? The capital itself is grand enough. It does house Chris Christie for goodness sakes! We got there right at 3:00 and although I knew that the last tour began at 3:00, I had figured that we could just look around as ever...

New York Day 2 Day 2 started early with our ferry trip to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. I was so giddy when we first got to our Arab site because we could see the Statue of Liberty so you can imagine my thrill in actually getting to go to it! The girls were all excited too I believe but given that three of them are now teenagers getting smiles or levels of emotion that show true excitement is a bit rare!

New York Day 1 Many new experiences and sights of famous sites were had today! As we parked our trailer in the New Jersey Harbor our day began with a walk from what really was a glorified parking lot (our RV park) to the PATH station (New Jersey's subway station). We took it in and got off at Greely Square which is just a couple blocks from the Empire State Building. Katherine just about died from the get go with all of the people and the rudeness. I thought she...

Beginning our journey of New York, we first went to one of the priority "sights to see" which was the made famous by TV, Carlo's Bakery! As Emma and Sarah in all of their Netflix binge watching had started the the TV series "Cake Boss". From the beginning of planning this was at the top of the list. We showed up at 7:00 a.m. thinking there might be something to the hype and it would be less crowded; well it definitely wasn't crowded as there were only a few peopl...