Kris was attending a conference in Boston in June so the kids and I joined him for the last few days. He flew there, we drove. It was a long drive. What was supposed to be a 5 hour drive turned into 7.5 because of all the weekend traffic. But it was worth it, we had a great time seeing the city. I have always wanted to go to Boston. We have lived on the East Coast for 10 years and this was our first visit.
This is our car ride home--that is a lot of kids in one car!

While Kris attended conference all day the kids and I had to entertain ourselves. We spent most the day in the Public Garden and Boston Commons. It was a little drizzly, but the kids were in a great mood and we had so much fun exploring everything.
This is the carousel in Boston Commons


A friend of ours told us about the ducks statues in the Public garden. She even loaned us her copy of "Make Way for Duckings". If you are as uneducated as I am then you should know it is a cute children's book that shows a family of ducks finding their way around Boston. Very cute book, and fun duck statues for the kids to play on. We spent way to much time climbing on ducks!






Since we didn't want to make the kids walk all over the entire city we decided to buy tickets on the Duck Tour. Those are the obnoxious tour buses that go in the water also. It was a fun way to see the entire city, but not quite as educational as you might think. Our guide mostly pointed out all the Dunkin' Donut locations for us--there were a lot of those!


We love to go to the drive-in movies! There is a great place near our house that we try to hit a couple of times a summer. We usually make it for 2 movies--it makes for a late night.

We went with some families in our ward camping to a place called Highland Forest. We had so much fun visiting with them and watching the kids play. We even hid peanuts for the kids, a favorite game my Grandma Palmer used to play with us when we went camping with her.



3 comments:
a BOY!!???!! hooray for chris and joshua! that's so exciting. i hope you kept joshua's stuff! congrats!
and how fun, travis and i haven't been back to boston since we got married. i've almost completely forgotten what the inside of the boston temple looks like. :( would LOVE to go back sometime. i think those purple flowers are alliums - i've planted a few, but they haven't survived in our yard. i think they're so cool! i'll have to plant more.
Darling kids. I love back to school pictures! They look so excited. Enjoy just a minute of peace during the day, it's amazing how fast it goes.
Love ya.
Definitely not surprised the West Family has all their ducks in a row! :) Looks like so much fun! And I love the way you told the other kids about the baby!
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