Cub Reporter: Family vacation to New York, Boston

Earlier this month, my family and I went on a vacation to New York to surprise my sister with tickets to “Hamilton” for her birthday.
When we first got there, we went and tried New York pizza and we walked down Broadway to see what it was like. Then we took a bus tour of many of the famous places in New York, like the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building.

The next day we went and took a tour on the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid. This aircraft carrier has something very special on it – the space shuttle Enterprise, which was the test craft for the shuttle program. They also had a flight simulator that spun around, and we ended up doing it twice. Then they also had a simulator where you land the space shuttle for a score; and not to brag, but I set the high score. That evening we went and watched the Macy’s fireworks show over the East River, which was insane!

The next day my Dad and I spent the morning at the American Museum of Natural History, where we saw a bunch of fossils that are from Clarendon, which was really cool to see.

That evening we went and watched “Hamilton” for my sister’s birthday and got to eat at a fancy Italian restaurant for dinner.

The next day we took a train to Boston where we would spend the rest of our trip at the International Lions Club Convention. In Boston, we went to the USS Constitution, which is the oldest active vessel in the navy. Then the next day I went on a tour of MIT, which was really cool. It’s a very nice campus and the people there were very nice. Later that day we went and visited Paul Revere’s house and the Old North Church.

The next day was our last day in Boston, we spent the morning at the Lions Club International Parade which was fun to get to experience. That afternoon we went to the Boston Tea Party Museum and got to go through the Boston tea party experience. Then afterwards we went and threw tea in the harbor for fun while we were there.

In all, it was a very fun trip full of lots of different experiences. I enjoyed it and I hope we can keep going on awesome trips like this.