Salem, Here I Come!
That’s right. I finally made it to the historic Witch City. Yay!
After we finished shooting the videos for the website Saturday morning, Rick rushed us back to his house to pick up his wife, Janice, and we dashed over to Salem.
One of my LiveJournal and Goodreads friends, Janice Dumas, had emailed when she read on this blog that I was coming to Boston. She’s a Pagan living in Boston, and she wanted to show me around Salem.
Cool!
We met Jan at “Cornerstone Bookstore,” and she proceeded to take us to all her fav stores. I wasn’t in Salem five minutes when I saw a totally cute pink t-shirt and squealed. You know how I am about pink, right? Gottahaveit! This one had a black Witch on the front, and said “Salem, Massachusetts, A Wicked Good Time.” Gottahaveit! And it was only $5.00, too. How lucky could I get? 
An hour later I found another cool t-shirt at a store Jan took us to. This one is black, and “Wicked” is written across the front in bright green letters. Gottahaveit! Before I left for Boston some of my girlfriends had asked what I intended to buy in Salem when I got there. I knew I wanted two Salem t-shirts. That was a must. Then I thought if I found a Witchy bracelet I liked I would get that too, since I always wear bracelets on both wrists. Now I had my two t-shirts, and I loved them.
Those of you who know me in person know I do a crazy thing with my t-shirts. I like them short. If they’re already short (like the pink Witch one) I leave them alone. But if they’re longer (like the black one) I cut a few inches off the bottom and let them roll up for a natural hem. What can I say? I like to show my stomach. Once a slut, always a slut, ya know? So that’s what I did to the black one after I got back to Columbia. And it looks sooooooo cute now! *slutty grin*
Okay, back to Salem. Next we stopped in a crystal store, and I bought a gorgeous rose quartz crystal (my fav) for my charm necklace. In case you don’t know this, every piece of jewelry a Witch wears means something, or it’s a charm of some kind. So the necklace I always wear contains charms and crystals.
In fact I even found a crystal for Rick that would open up his life to more magick. Cool! And he bought it. Okay, I can be persistent (well, he NEEDED it! *LOL*). He refused to wear it on a necklace (it’s an Alpha guy thing *rolls my eyes*). But he did tell me on Sunday he’s keeping it in his pocket so he can touch it all day long. Good enough.
We shopped for hours and browsed through every Witch store we found, including Laurie Cabot’s famous “The Cat, the Crow, and the Crown.” After a while we stopped at a restaurant on the wharf for a snack. Awesome view of the harbor! I took a few pics with my cell phone camera to text to Wes later that night. The sun was so bright I couldn’t see if they looked very good. But I promised him pics. And as Rick always says, “So there!” ROFLMAO
Salem was major fun and total shopping nirvana. Jan made it even more special, because she is a very sweet, delightful person, and she knows all the good places to go. Salem is not a city a shopaholic can adequately abuse in one day. But I did my best, even though I was more exhausted from shooting the videos that morning than I realized.
Before we left, Jan took us to a bronze statue of Samantha from the old TV series, “Bewitched.” Rick snapped a few pics of Jan and I in front of it. Yeah, it was truly the perfect ending to a perfect day.
Nothing better than being a shopaholic tourist, ya know? Gottahaveit! LOL
xoxo
Laura Stamps (c)
Author of Erotica and Paranormal Romance Novels
http://www.LauraStamps.blogspot.com (to read excerpts from my novel series)
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