Trip to Boston!

One of the places that we wanted to visit while we live in New England was Boston... So once we found someone to watch Josie, we decided we would head to Massachusetts and explore the wonderful capital!  We arrived on July 4th and immediately started walking along the Freedom Trail!

Some of the things that we saw on Thursday:

• Boston Common (America's oldest public park)
• John Hancock's grave
• Paul Revere's grave
• place where the first public school was built
• Park Street Church (Prison reform began in this church, women’s suffrage was strongly supported here, and some of the first and most impassioned protests against slavery were delivered inside)
• Old State House (was the center of revolutionary Boston's civic and commercial life. On the town square outside its doors, the Boston Massacre unfolded in 1770, resulting in the deaths of five men, and galvanizing public opposition to British authority. The Declaration of Independence was read from the building's balcony in July 1776.)
• Site of the Boston Massacre 
• Quincy Market... where we ate yummy soft serve ice cream and watched street shows!
• Boston Harbor (site of the Boston Tea Party)

On Friday we went on a tour of Fenway Park (the oldest major league baseball stadium) - we loved seeing the famous baseball field!  Afterward we went to the Children's Museum, where Owen was able to sit in a real digger, and we spent lots of time playing at the water tables, sand tables, exploring a real Japanese house that is 100 years old, playing dodgeball on an interactive floor, climbing a huge tree house maze, and doing many other things that the museum had to offer.  After the museum we went to the Skywalk Observatory where we went to the 50th floor in the Prudential Building and saw 360º views of Boston - it was amazing! (Although I think Sean and I enjoyed it much more than the kids)

Friday night we arrived at the hotel and began getting everyone bathed and ready for bed.  Owen ended up throwing a glass cup and cut his thumbs pretty bad so we decided to take him to the ER to make sure that there weren't any little pieces of glass in the cuts and to see if they needed stitches.  Thankfully the PA didn't see any glass and was able to use a special glue to 'glue' the skin back together (although the glue on his right thumb split open Saturday...)    What a way to end the vacation with a bang!

Saturday we packed up and headed back to Connecticut :)