Ever since the weather has turned warmer, the family has been on a mission to do as much as possible on our "Boston Bucket List", and we have done a pretty fabulous job if I do say so. So starting back in May...
With my parents in town, we made the most of the willing babysitters and hit up two restaurants that we had wanted to go to all year. The first night we went to Giacomo's, which is supposed to be one of the most popular Italian restaurants in the city. Unfortunately, we were underwhelmed with our food :(. But we followed that up with a visit to the movies to see the new X-Men film, which we both gave two thumbs up!
The next evening we headed to Ye Olde Union Oyster House, the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the US. Pretty cool huh?
This was my lobster pasta. Pretty impressive to look at, but somewhat underwhelming to eat. But I'm not complaining because the company (and lack thereof) made it into an enjoyable evening nonetheless. We followed dinner with a leisurely stroll around downtown, checking out a few places we hadn't explored before with the kids.
Then the kids and I left Brian and joined the grands for a trip out to Brewester on Cape Cod. The family went out to Martha's Vineyard last July (posts here, here and here), but we had never made it out to cape. The first day was cold and rainy (that's New England in May for you), but we were able to make it out to the beach the other two full days we were there... bundled up of course. We all had a great time!
Next the children and I explored a new museum that we had been told about waaaay back last summer - the Waterworks Museum. This is an old waterworks facility that for decades pumped Boston's water supply from the reservoir system to the whole city.
There was some incredibly huge machinery in there (see Sarah in the lower left hand corner below for scale). We got to see a video about the history of the waterworks facility and then poked around and explored on our own for quite a while.
Brian's birthday was last month and he happened to be scheduled for call that day (reminds me of the year in residency where he was on call for Nathan's birthday, my birthday and his birthday all in the same year). But this year it worked out nicely because it meant that we had the day to do an activity of Brian's choice. He picked a visit to the USS Constitution, the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel launched in 1797.
We got to explore the upper deck and well as two of the three lower decks. Check out those cannons!
Then after naps we "had Daddy's birthday" aka cake and singing, since that evening Brian and I were headed to the Harvard Club for Brian's fellowship graduation dinner. Thirty-one this year!
Brian had to head straight to the hospital after dinner, so even though it was a bummer he had to work call on his birthday it turned out to be the shortest call shift ever, just about 8 hours overnight. When he got home the next morning, he was surprised by the sign that the kids and our great friend Abi (who graciously stayed with our kids while we were at dinner) made for him while we were out.
The next week we again took advantage of Brian's pre-call morning to ride the Swan Boats around The Public Garden.
More to come... (and I promise it will come sometime this week since I already have the pictures sorted and picked out, which is my main hurdle these days.)
Loved the post! Gran
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