Granmommy and Grandaddy's Visit

A few weeks back Granmommy and Grandaddy got to come for a short visit. Almost every morning we met them up at their hotel to take advantage of the free breakfast in the lobby. The kids love getting to choose what they want to eat from all the different options. Their hotel also has an indoor heated swimming pool, so we got to extend the summer by a couple of days.

Their flight got in kind of late Wednesday night so they went straight to their hotel. We met them for breakfast the next morning and then went for a swim. Grandaddy had an appointment so he headed out and the rest of us came back to our house for Lennon's nap. Friday morning after breakfast we went out to Concord. There is so much history there that we had to just choose a few different places we were the most interested in seeing. All in all, we loved Concord. It is such a beautiful town with so much history. We toured Louisa May Alcotts house, saw Walden Pond and a replica of the cabin Henry David Thoreau built for himself and lived in for two years, visited The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and The North Bridge (the site of the first battle of the Revolution.) Saturday after Mia's ballet class we went up to New Hampshire to check out a mini van. It didn't work out, but we did get a yummy lunch at Cracker Barrel out of the trip. Sunday we went into Boston for the morning and most of the afternoon before taking Granmommy and Grandaddy to the airport. It was a fun, but too fast visit. Luckily, we get to see them again in just a couple of weeks.

Lennon and Granmommy walking back from the North Bridge. I think he was asking her to "talk more about DisneyWorld" his current obsession

The North Bridge in the background

Mia instructed Lennon to yell "FREEDOM" as I took this picture in front of the North Bridge monument

This was taking seconds before an evil Chipmunk attacked Granmommy by throwing a very sharp acorn at the top of her head. She screamed so loud that Grandaddy thought she had been shot. A few minutes later a park ranger walked by and said "Acorn attack, huh?" I guess she wasn't the first victim of this kind of violent act.

At The Alcott house

Our last day of their visit we went into Boston after breakfast and did a Duck Tour. Afterwards we had breakfast on in the Back Bay at a little cafe called Stephanie's on Newbury. We spent a while walking through a park on Commonwealth Ave and finished the day off with some ice cream at Ben & Jerry's.

Lennon trying ice cream with sugar in it for the first time.

The food at Stephanie's was super yummy. The kids shared a fancy grilled cheese with three different kinds of cheese, tomato and avacado.

We walked through the Boston Public Gardens. The swan boats were gone for the year, but everything was still very colorful and we lucked into pretty great weather the whole weekend pretty much.

Lennon took a turn driving the duck boat

Mia actually got to steer the boat under a bridge. Every duck tour is different and on this one in particular we learned that the man who designed the original duck boats was a designer with the last name of...Francis!

This is the Boston County Jail house. Can you believe that? What a view right?

Waiting for the tour to take off. We had trouble finding parking, so Grandaddy and Shelby had to practically run from the parked cars to the duck boat to not miss the "launch." Good thing they are both in pretty good shape.