Canada and USA 2018 trip second post
Thursday, December 20, 2018Boston
Well as you can see it was a cloudy day in Boston, we only stayed there for a bit plus we went shopping in T.J. Maxx there and bought ourselves stuff. |
| Statue of Phillips Brooks at Trinity Church |
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| Old North Church |
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| Copp's Hill Burying Ground |
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| Old State House |
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| A funny slim house. |
Quebec City
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| Old Quebec City |
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| Samuel de Champlain statue near place d'Armes and the Château Frontenac hotel |
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| A shop front in Old Quebec City |
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| A fresco in Old Quebec City |
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| A shot where you can see the famed hotel Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac just above |
Montreal
We went to the underground city in Montreal and we had mass there as it was Sunday and later went to China Town.
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| Notre-Dame Basilica |
This is Notre Dame Basilica we didn't go to mass there we went to another one, but it was just as beautiful and a wedding was being held there.
Thousand Island
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| Boldt Castle |
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| Another view of Boldt Castle |
Toronto
Here we went on another cruise around the city and had dinner on top of the CN Tower.
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| Cruising |
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| On top of CN Tower |
Niagara Falls
After Toronto was a breathtaking trip to Niagara Falls, we only stayed for one night there but it sure was beautiful.
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| The view from the helicopter |
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| The view from the cruise |
Lancaster
Next we went to visit the Amish in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We visited a restaurant that served Amish food and had whoopie pie and shoofly pie (my favourite!)
Here are some photos we took of an Amish house.
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| Drying tobacco |
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| Horse and buggy |
Washington D.C.
Well Washington D.C. was full of memorials, art galleries and museums. We had to pick only a few because we only stayed there for a short while.
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| The National Air and Space Museum |
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| National Gallery of Art |
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| Vincent Van Gogh |
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| John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |
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| Thomas Jefferson Memorial |
At Arlington National Cemetery where John F. Kennedy is buried next to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis his former wife
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| Burial place of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
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| Korean War Veterans Memorial |
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| Lincoln Memorial |
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| Capitol Building |
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| Capitol Building, |
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| White House |
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| Skull of T. Rex at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History |
And lots of jewellery from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
We end our tour in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where we had a historical tour of the city and ate some famous food, some greasy steak sandwich.
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| The Liberty Bell. |
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| One of the copies of the Declaration of Independence |
And it's back to New York City!
Here is a far shot of the Statue of Liberty which I took at the beginning of the tour.
There is a poem written by Emma Lazarus called The New Colossus which was used to raise money for the construction of a pedestal. The poem is now cast in bronze and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level. It is written thus:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
MOTHER OF EXILES. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Well, hope you had fun reading these two posts.
Hope for more adventures in the future!
God bless.
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