Boston

I'm going to attempt to catch up on this blog! Wish me luck!
For Christmas my mom and dad bought Bryan some awesome tickets to the Jazz v. Celtics game in Boston on January 21st. The best part?!?! My brother, Zach, got a ticket also so his wife, Staci and him flew out and we had a weekend adventure with them!
Our good friends (Sara and Harry Krieder and Dallin and Betsy Bagley, with their daughter Lizzie) also came along! Seriously so much fun!
We were staying in a Marriott in South Boston and the nice airport shuttle man offered to drive us right into downtown Boston. We were right in the middle of the North End, or Little Italy. Apparently when a lot of Italians immigrated to the US they settled in Boston. Little Italy is a TON of really good Italian restaurants. So Sara got out her handy UrbanSpoon app and found us an Italian restaurant. IT WAS SO GOOD! Seriously the best Italian of my life.

After dinner, the girls separated from the men. Men walked to the Garden for their basketball game, girls headed over to (angelic chorus' begin) Mike's Pastries.
I am not a big pastry fan, but oh. my. gosh. These pastries were seriously incredible. After our pit stop, we headed out on the frozen adventure of out life (this is where it gets good). We had heard Boston was intimidating to get around, but that was a bit of an understatement for us. We first had a hard time for the closest T (underground subways) station. Then we found one, but that was the least of our problems. Now we had to find an elevator for my massive double stroller and Betsy's stroller with Lizzie. CURSE THE ELEVATORS OF THE T! They were so hard to find. Well we eventually made it to the train, figured out which way to go to get to the Children's museum and headed off. We had to switch train once, which we did (after finding elevators again...) only to get off where we thought we were supposed to be and be COMPLETELY LOST! We were in a mall?! We walked out onto the road and asked a friendly couple where the street we needed was, they told us and asked where we were going, we said the Children's Museum and and they said "oh my gosh you are so far away. Its a long walk and you would have to go across a bridge to get there." Did I mention it was one of the coldest weekends? And windy? They told us how to get there and after about the 5th instruction, we decided we better just go back to our hotel. But not before I feed Nate because he was starving. So I found a dressing room in the Macy's and fed him. We attempted the T again, shouldn't be too hard we were only 2 stops away from where we needed to go. When we got off I called our hotel and asked them if they could pick us up from the station, we were only like half a mile from our hotel, but it was cold the sidewalks were completely snow packed and we had little kids. They said they would send a shuttle....ten minutes go by. No shuttle. I call again they said they sent one but will send another...ten minutes...no shuttle. I call again they say "where are you?" so I told them and they said "oh we have been sending the shuttle to the airport. we will send on to the train stop." Waiting...not shuttle, could have been home 20 minutes ago if we had walked so we start walking. Turns out I was calling the wrong hotel (although in my defense I asked for the right one, they transferred to me the wrong one). You should have seen Betsy and I with our strollers, frozen, snow packed sidewalks and cold children. It was pretty sad, and amazing all at the same time. When we finally pulled and pushed through the worst part of the sidewalks I got a little running start and decided not to stop and just took off with Staci with me and ran the rest of the way to the hotel with Ethan crying because he was so cold. After that was over I was drained, but had a big surge of self confidence....if I could survive those scary, frustrating subways, freezing cold weather, snow packed sidewalks without my husband and 2 kids in a stroller I could do anything! We went to Betsy's hotel and ate Mike's Pastries and went to bed.

Oh and our husbands had a BLAST at their game while this all happened. Jazz got wasted, but we weren't expecting much. They had front row seats in the corner and were sitting by some of the families of the Celtic's players. Pretty cool. Shaq is huge.

The next day we went to the Children's Museum, Ethan had a blast. It was the best kids museum EVER!







We had dinner at a restaurant my brother in law recommended, Bertucci's. It was great! And then got some more Mike's Pastries. (food was the highlight of this trip).

Sunday, we went to the USS Constitution. It is the Nation's oldest commissioned Naval ship. I wanted to do something historical while we were in Boston and since that looks like a Pirate Ship, it was a win-win!

Despite our adventures we had a ton of fun, ate a lot of GOOD FOOD and would like to go back...when it isn't January!