Coolest. Uncle. Ever.

That sexy beast is my favorite uncle, Fran. What's he doing? Digging into the best(not just because it was my first) calzone ever on the face of this planet. Its like 2 pizzas stuck together with cheese, chicken, and broccoli stuffed in the middle. In other words, PARADISE. <3 This isn't the best picture of him, but I don't care. He doesn't even know I took it. :) I'm just a ninja, like that. Anyways, he's the coolest uncle ever. And, most definitely, the most hilarious. But, as crazy as he is, he's one of the(if not "the") sweetest men I know. And, you'll definitely hear more about this guy in this blog. 

Taken from the van, on our way there. This is the sunset in North Carolina(you'll see the sunrise for the next day[today] later on). It was really pretty, but I couldn't quite get the greatest picture of it, since we were riding down the road and the windows were dirty. So, not the best picture, but it'll do. :) 

This is the sunrise in New Jersey. Notice how our sunset and sunrise were in two completely different states? Hah. Yeah. We were doing some hardcore traveling(I'll list all of the states we went through, in order, later on). And, this sunrise was one of the brightest I've ever seen. I mean, I haven't seen very many, but still. It was so blinding that we were stressing, because we couldn't see the signs to the ramps we had to get off on. It was a stressful ride, anyway(again, I'll be explaining later; just be patient), so this didn't help!

This is a beautiful bridge that we had to get onto while in New Jersey. What was the toll? EIGHT FREAKING DOLLARS. Insane, right? We thought so, too. And, little did we know, this bridge took us from New Jersey straight into New York. We didn't realize this until we got across the bridge and saw signs saying, "Manhattan" and "Bronx." There was no state line, so we were a little confused. Of course, it wasn't even 30 minutes into New York that we hit the Connecticut state line, so yeah. 

The one out of two pictures I got of New York. I think this is Manhattan, not New York City, but its still New York! This was a really old bridge that we passed. It wasn't until just now that I realized we were most likely on a bridge identical to that one as we were passing.. I'm a little slow. :P But, hey, its probably because I've only had 2 1/2 hours of sleep in the past almost 40 hours! So, don't judge me!

BOSTON! FINALLY! :) Well, technically, its Woburn, Massachusetts, but its 5 minutes down the road, if not IN Boston, so it counts. This is like the "town square" of Woburn, which is like 6 blocks long. This particular area was just kind of random, but it was cute. And, the first picture I took in Boston. :) 

My Aunt Angela's house in Woburn. Its so cute, isn't it? :) You should see the inside, but we're not staying there until later on in the week, so I'm not even going to post any of the inside. Plus, it kinda feels weird walking around her house taking pictures of it.. O.o Though, I'll probably post some of random places in her house. Like, for example, her creepy stairs.. One stairway leads up to a dark upstairs, and the other, leads down into a creepy basement(which I haven't been in, nor do I plan to). 

This is the cute, little Italian restaurant/cafe thing that we got our lunch from. If I remember correctly, its called Marco's. The inside reminds me of being in Italy(minus the Boston accents), and the food is pretty delicious. Its a great place for real, Italian cold-cut subs! :) I had a piece of a calzone, but it was good, too!

A clam shell we found on the beach! Oh, and this is supposed to be a SMALL one! :O There was another one bigger than this one, that was also a "small" clam. We(me and Stevie, not Ricky and Fran, because they're too lame) were supposed to dig for some clams, but the tide was too high. Bummer! But, oh well. We've got time. :)

This is a little restaurant on the beach that has one of the BEST calzones and pizza EVER. Its really small, but uber cute. And, did I mention its ON THE BEACH?! Yeahhh! Apparently, Uncle Fran comes here quite a lot, too. He knew just what to order and how to get there and such. Gotta love him! :)

Last picture, I promise! This is the sunset in Boston on the beach. :) Btw, that's facing the road and stuff, not the ocean. Oh, and all these pictures, plus many, MANY more, will be posted on my facebook for everyone to see! :)
The ride there was absolute TORTURE. We started out in the afternoon and it was super hot outside. Oh, did I mention that the A/C in the van is out? And that only one of the windows rolls down? Hah. Yeah. It was insane. But, once we hit the Carolinas, it started raining, so it cooled down a lot. Okay, so here's our route: Alabama>Georgia>South Carolina>North Carolina>Virginia>West Virginia>Maryland>New Jersey>New York>Connecticut>Massachusetts. Phew. I had to get Stevie to help me out with that, btw. It took us a total of 22 hours to finally get here. Which, included stops and turn arounds and GPS screw ups. Yes, that's right. Our GPS is stupid. It kept randomly "recalculating" when we were going the right way! And, one time, it told us to get off on this exit, turn right, turn around, turn around again, then get back on the interstate exactly the same way we were going before.. TOTALLY. FREAKING. INSANE. So, we didn't count that in our number of turn arounds. Which, btw, was only 2 times! Total record, I know! And, it was when we were in Atlanta, Georgia, which is a pretty insane place to drive, in case you didn't know. But, after all the GPS mess-ups, our own screw-ups, some hilarious and interesting conversations, and a cappuccino in Maryland, we made it to Boston in one piece. :) And, I have only the Lord to thank, because it definitely could've been worse.. Much, much worse. So, I'll continue to keep you guys updated as much as I can. Especially since, as you can see, I have internet access! Woohoo! Yay for Uncle Fran's awesome neighbors' internet! ;) Haha. 
-Camile <3