Day 2

 June 27th,
     We woke up early and drove to a grocery store for muffins and yogurt. Yummy. We then drove to downtown Boston and parked in the underground parking at the Boston Commons. We found the Freedom Trail and took off walking. Here you see a Paul Revere Look-Alike.

We should say here that we didn't understand that there was a brick trail to follow until a little while into the walking. DUH! We got lost quite a bit. It was hard following the maps because there were no mountains to identify the North,South, East and West.Insert a plug here for the helpful people of Boston who were so willing to help us find our way around.
 We especially loved the Old North Church. Way too neat! All of the Colonial architecture was beautiful. Loved the idea of putting a warming stone in the middle of the family pew to help us keep warm during church. The girl's mentioned they could curl up on the floor and sleep during an extra long meeting. One observation was that other parishioners would also know if you didn't make it to church that week or stay away from their box, they are sick. Loved seeing all the cemeteries of famous people of the Revolution. Oh, #4 had a bird poop in her hair in front of the statue of Ben Franklin. We walked across the bridge to see the USS Constitution. Way cool! Jumped on a ferry to get back to Boston Harbor. We walked to a Crab place but discovered someone had reserved it for the evening so again we walked and walked and walked all over Boston and came to The Black Rose Irish Pub and ate a fantastic dinner of fish and chips! Walked back to the van and drove back to the Hotel. Our tootsies were mighty sore but the girls had enough energy to go swim in the pool until midnight. Fun Day! 

Vacation of a Lifetime!

Tues. June 25th
What we have planned for and worked toward is finally here! Can't believe it's time for vacation. Not just any vacation, one in a real airplane and farther away than Wyoming and Colorado.  The girls were way excited to get to the airport. We hitched grandpa's trailer on behind the truck, loaded all our suitcases and headed north. Our airplane left at 12:30 a.m. Our first layover was in Detroit. We saw beautiful lightning storms while on the plane.  We strolled over to another terminal to get to another flight into Manchester, NH.     We arrived about 8:30 a.m. where we waited for a shuttle van to take us to Enterprise rental to pick up our van. It is a nice van, a blue, brand new, GMC stow-and-go.  Loved all the room for us.

Wasn't very tired because we were all keyed up for the fun events of the day.  We drove to our hotel in Wakefield, MA. We zoomed as fast as we could to Fenway Park to get there in time for the Red Sox vs. Rockies game. DH had a horrible time finding a parking spot. We also quickly learned that Bostonians are honk-happy. Wow. if you don't go quickly on a green you get tons of honks. 

We left the game early when the Rockies were too far behind to catch up.

We drove to find a dinner spot. We ate cheese pizza on the square in Woeburn, MA. The weather is muggy and hot. It has been overcast all day. Heard that there was flash flooding and the company we were using to float down the Delaware called and cancelled our trip. (sad)  We found a Walmart and picked up a few things like a styrofoam cooler and  snacks then drove to the hotel. What a fun and very long day.!