4th of July

We wanted to go on a little trip during the july 4th weekend. We were origianlly going to go Cape Cod, which is located here.

I heard that there are some cute light houses and fishing towns there, but we ended up chainging our route to the little island called "Martha's vineyard" below cape cod because of bad traffic.

It took us about 2 hours to get there.

I like the summer and the fall in Mass.. It is so green and blue everywhere and in the fall, they just turn to all different colors..

We first arrived this town called 'Woods hole'. We had to take a ferry to go to the Isalnd from here. There were lots of people and cars..

The parking situation must have been terrible that morning as you can see from this picture. About 1/3 of cars parked on the street had parking tickets. We saw up to 3 parking tickets on one car. Luckily, we slept in until 10 am and left our home at 2 pm that day, so we didn't have to deal with this craziness.

I made korean sushi and brought it with us.

On the ferry! I was busy running around taking pictures, but Jesse didn't get up until 10 minutes before we arrived because he was too worried if he left his seat, someone would sit there.

The view of the island from the ferry. I see a couple of beautiful Victorian style houses.

There were many unique looking houses on the Island. (too difficult to post all pictures:(

Is there an easy way to post them? Every time I post a picture, the picture is inserted on the top of my post, not in the context where I want to put)

While I am taking pictures, I saw this guy! (one entering the restaurant.) I don't know how many people have heard about him but he is the harvard professor who accused one policeman for being a racist after being arrested at his house. More details here if any of you is interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_gates_arrest

As soon as I saw him, I ran to Jesse and made him pose for the picture to pretend that we were taking a picture of Jesse but I was actually trying to take a picture of him.

Although we didn't stay there for a long time, it was a good short getaway from schools. I can't believe it is already end of july. well..almost.... My classes end this week and I have 2 finals next week, then I am saying good bye to school forever-- except for the fact that now I will have to go to work for one more year without getting paid . Jesse is finishing up his second block this week and his last block starts next week and goes on for 2 weeks. Then, he will have a 3 weekvacation. I am so excited for our break in August.