Christmas Day

In order to pass the day without feeling homesick Scott and I decided it was a good idea to do something exciting.  For us that meant going to Boston.  We chose that location because typically when we go to Boston there are cars everywhere--much like going to Los Angeles!  We figured that we could visit some sites in the downtown area and most other people would be home with their families.  That was exactly the case.  We had gone to Auto Club here in New Hampshire and picked up a book about Boston.  We used that for our guide.  As it turned out we walked around the Boston Common area, got lunch at a nearby grocery story with a deli inside and then sat in our car outside the park and "people-watched" while we ate. We enjoyed our really tasty ham and cheese on rye and talked with Bill and Cathy and all the kids and then Christian and Amy and all the kids.  It was great.  When we finished up we drove over into Revere which is just a little northeast of Boston.  We drove along the road that was next to the Atlantic Ocean and watched the waves rush up onto the sand.  I am sure that in the summer we would have barely moved along the road because of the number of people coming to enjoy the coolness of the ocean breezes.  After talking about it we realized that we could probably go back to Boston every Saturday for months and see something we hadn't seen before.  And we will!

A blend of old and new!

I wasn't kidding about no traffic

Loved the canopied windows

George Washington

Memorial to Bostonians who died in the World Trade Center on Sept 11

Make Way for Ducklings