Boston

Well, I just got home from my family vacation to Boston and surrounding areas and loved it! Here are a few photos of the trip day by day:

Day One:

My first encounter with a street in Northern Boston. So perfect.

Our first night we went to a little Italian restaurant that was delicious. Ethan scarfed down his fettucini alfredo so fast that our waiter brought him a second plate of it on the house, which he ate equally as fast.

Day Two:

Toured Boston both by a magic vehicle that went on land and water as well as walking through the historic sites by foot.

Favorite quote of the trip: we overheard a lady telling her daughter the story of Paul Revere hanging the lanterns when we were visiting the Old North Church. She said, "It was something like 'one if by sea, two if by air'" Oh sweetheart, I don't think the British had airplanes in the late 1700's. I'm pretty sure it was 'one if by land, two if by sea.' Good effort though. Some people just don't think through things logically before they say them.

The Old North Church had these pews with doors and walls. We decided that we would like our church to adopt this seating method...we could lay down and give massages during church and no one would be able to see. Awesome!

Day Three:

A tour of Harvard Campus

And a visit to Fenway Park with shopping to follow

Day Four:

We spent the day visiting the historic sites in Lexington and Concord. We saw all the graves of famous authors like Hawthorne, Emerson and Thoreau and a picnic at Walden Pond.

A Red Sox game at Fenway...unfortunately we lost.

Day Five:

We spent the day at Plymouth Plantation and met up with some cousins doing the same vacation as us and then drove to Cape Cod for the night.

Day Six:

We rode bikes all around Nantucket Island and spent the day at the beach. It was the most perfect and quaint Island and little town.

Nantucket

Day Seven:

Went to the Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island. We realized that we were nerdy for posing with imaginary rackets in mid-swing as soon as the picture was over.

And finally we met up with Kennedy who is nannying in Newport for the summer and toured the old Vanderbilt mansion with her.

The trip was so fun and couldn't have been more perfect. I fell in love with Boston, New England and the East Coast in general.