New England Road Trip: Lockwood Matthews Mansion, Yale University Art Gallery, & Les Miserables at the Shubert Theatre | New Haven, CT

I began the day by driving to Norwalk, Connecticut, and touring the Lockwood-Matthews Mansion Museum. The house is so cool!

New England Road Trip: Downtown Portland, Maine Historical Society Tour, Shopping, & Old Port | Portland, ME

I arrived in Portland, Maine, late Sunday night. I settled into my Airbnb and crashed. I slept in Monday morning and then headed to downtown Portland. 

Changing of the Guard, Green Park, St. James' Park, Royal Mews, & Phantom of the Opera in the West End | London, England

On day 9 we watched the changing of the guard, visited Green Park, St. James' Park, the Royal Mews, explored the shops in the West End, and watched Phantom of the Opera.

Day 9 was a day of royal activities that began with the changing of the guard. Unless you want to stand outside of the palace at least an hour before the changing of the guard begins, you will not get a good viewing spot. You just won't. It was so crowded!!! It was like rivalry college football game crowded. 

Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Biblical Art, The Frick Collection, 9/11 Memorial, Serendipity 3, & Broadway | New York City, NY

Well folks, my time in New England is almost over. In a week and a half I will be all packed up and ready to move back to Oklahoma. But in the meantime I am sightseeing!!! 

MoMA, Claude Monet, Agapanthus, 1914-26, Oil on Canvas

Mark Twain House & Museum, Grove Street Cemetery, Beineke Library, The Morgan Library, Dylan's Candy Bar, Broadway & Easter | New Haven, CT, New York City, NY, & Groton, CT

Well, it only took 7 months but I finally got an Oklahoman to visit me in Connecticut! My best friend and roommate from OSU, came to visit over Easter weekend. We visited a lot of sites in 4 days but it was so much fun! We toured Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe's houses in Hartford (fun fact they were neighbors).

Mark Twain's House

Times Square, Bryant Park, New York Public Library, Rockefeller Center, Top of the Rock Observation Deck, Broadway | New York City, NY

"...I want to wake up in that city 
that doesn't sleep 
and find that I'm king of the hill 
top of the heap


My little town blues
they are melting away
I'm going to make a brand new start of it
in old New York..."

Times Square