Hello Again

I have obviously been quite the slacker in the blogging world the past few months, but I have also been rather busy. School has started back up, and vacations and birthdays have also kept me away from my blog. So, what are the highlights from the past couple months or so? My vacation is probably the most interesting thing that has happened. I traveled the East Coast, across 8 states, and visited three major Canadian cities, all within 8 days. Although it was rather tiring to be forced to wake up every day at 6 a.m. Eastern time, I appreciated the vast number of sites and experiences that my parents and I were able to see in such a short amount of time. Yes, I just went with my parents and left my husband at home, because he would much rather wake up late and not rush around with all us crazy Asian tourists. We went with a Chinese tour company that drove us through the East Coast and Canada on a packed bus with about 40 other people from around the world. Our journey started from the Big Apple and ended up in Beantown.
Here is our itinerary from our travels:
Day 1 - New York City at night (saw the skyline, Times Square and Rockefeller Center)
Day 2 - (New York City) Empire State Building, Ground Zero, Wall Street, Trinity Church, Federal Hall, Fifth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick's Cathedral, United Nations Headquarters, Statue of Liberty Harbor Cruise and a wax museum
Day 3 - (Philadelphia) Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Old Congress (Washington D.C.) Capitol Hill, White House, Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Vietnam War Memorial, National Gallery of Art, National Air & Space Museum
Day 4 - (Hershey, PA) Hershey's Chocolate Town, (Corning, NY) Corning Glass Museum, Niagara Falls at night (Canadian side)
Day 5 - (Niagara Falls) Niagara Falls, Goat Island, Maid of the Mist Cruise, Skylon Tower lunch, IMAX movie, Goat Island (Toronto) Ontario Parliament Building, University of Toronto, City Hall, CN Tower, Sky-Dome Sports Complex
Day 6 - Thousand Islands Cruise, (Ottawa) Nation's Parliament Building, (Montreal) Old Town Montreal, Olympic Park and Tower
Day 7 - (Montreal) Mt. Royal, St. Joseph's Oratory (Boston) Harvard University, MIT, State House of Massachusetts, Boston Common Park, Lobster dinner
Day 8 - (Boston) USS Constitution, USS Cassin Young Destroyer, Boston Massacre site, Boston Tea Party Ship site, Boston Harbor Cruise, Quincy Market

Photos from my trip are posted at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=113998&id=655139155&l=576e0b88eb.