Salem & Selamat Hari Raya....

What do these things have in common? Nothing of course.
Apart from it being Hari Raya today, and US is not on holiday at all, and the fact that I had a 8:30am till 8:30pm class. To top it all off, we're all given a last minute reading and homework to do and pass up for class tomorrow. I am already convinced that we humans do not need 8 hours of sleep everyday in order to recharge ourselves. Sleeping around 2-3am and waking up before 8am just comes so natural nowadays.
Selamat Hari Raya everybody, and maaf zahir batin. :)

Anyway, back to Salem MA. I went to Salem with 2 of my batchmates last Saturday. Quite a number either couldn't make it that Saturday or didn't want to go because they were scared (????). I just had to go within this month because it's halloween month.

I'm glad I went for it as even the normal tourists like me were dressed up in their halloween costume. It takes around 30minutes to reach Salem via the Commuter from the North Station in Boston. We were there for 12 hours and still it wasn't enough time for us to cover the whole place.
Interesting things happened along the way. Even before we reached Salem, we already had one missing person. Apparently Jean is not a morning person and fell asleep like a dead log. So after numorous missed calls, the rest of us decided to go along without her. She joined us later on in the evening.
Rueben and I even manage to go to a witch shop, and the witches' annual convention. Lots of fortune telling. hmm... didn't bother to waste my money on that. Look see look see enough lah. Something interesting though, was that we even have to line up in order for us to go into one of the small shops.
I accidentally burnt my hair during one of the night tour!!! I had to cut some of my hair off. And this coming from vain old me, when it comes to my hair. That night, the temperature was as low as 45degrees (farenheit)/ 7 degrees celcius. I could hardly even feel my hands when I was holding the candle stick that they (the guide) gave us for the tour. I couldn't even feel much of the warmth from the candle. Being too engrossed with the guide's explanation/story, I didn't realise that I held the candle too close to my hair. And to think I have short hair!!!! hahahahah

All in all, we had fun in Salem. I bought lots of souveniers for my family and friends. They have so many cool stuff. I wouldn't mind going there a second time around. Who knows? mayhaps I'll be able to befriend a real witch someday?
:)