Concord trip!

Here are the photos from our splendid day in Concord.  Thanks to Kristen C. for contributing her photographic skills!

In front of the Old Manse


And at Walden Pond


Walden Pond
Everyone fit inside the replica of Thoreau's cabin:


Tara and Thoreau holding hands in front of the cabin



The actual site of Thoreau's cabin:





Along the trail






This guy was either a really bad kayaker or was practicing his rolls.


Lunch overlooking the Old Manse and the Old North Bridge


The Old Manse (home of Hawthorne and Emerson)




Views from the Old North Bridge




Orchard House (home of the Alcotts)


The Wayside (home of the Alcotts and the Hawthornes)


In the shops
The T-shirt gallery:




"Scrabble" figurines (this is the mouse that hung out with Jo March in the attic while she wrote. The mouse is not a major character in Little Women.) (Please ignore my ghostly image taking the picture with my cell phone.)


Little Women sachet dolls. Just below this shot is a freaky doll with working eyelids that costs several hundred dollars.