Our Week in Boston

While Mama and Daddy were working on the boat, Jack and I went to visit Grandma Pam in Lincoln, which is just outside of Boston. For an entire week we saw family and friends, visited famous sites, and were spoiled rotten by our grandmother.

Our first day in Boston, Grandma Pam made waffles for breakfast. She knows this is one of our favorite meals so she bought waffles that you can put in the toaster. After breakfast, we rode the T into the city and went to the Science Museum. This is one of the best science museums I have ever visited. Even though it was our third time there, I still learned new things.

On Friday, Aunt Mary came down from Maine to spend the day with us. She took us to Nicholas's house. 

Jack, Nicholas, me, Charlotte, and Aunt Mary

Nicholas has been a friend of Daddy's since he was in 5 ^th grade. We had a lot of fun playing with his two daughters, Annabelle and Charlotte and their friend Caroleena. We played kick the can, just like Daddy and Nicholas used to do, and also went to Drumlin Farm where we looked at animals. We also went to the movies, which may not sound that interesting except that Jack and I have not been to many movies in the last year. This really great day ended well too when we watched the Red Wings win.

Saturday was pretty fun too. We unfortunately had to say goodbye to Aunt Mary, but the rest of the day was great. We took a particularly long T ride into the heart of Boston. We rode the swan boats twice for fun. Riding the boats seemed really slow, almost like drifting, after sailing on Sila for so many months.

After exploring that park, Boston Common, we went to a food court for lunch. I had delicious Thai chicken. A speedy walk to a theater got us in before the crowd to see the Blue Man Group. I loved how the Blue Men moved. They were very deliberate and precise in their movements. And they had almost no facial expressions, and yet they still conveyed anger, surprise, offense, curiosity, and playful teasing. Afterward the show, we bought fried dough and watched people practice parkour, which is basically when people do flips and tricks between two places. We picked up Jameela, our cousin, at the T and went home where we dyed Easter eggs before dinner.

I woke up on Sunday with an Easter basket at the foot of my bed.

At three o'clock, Easter guests started arriving. Uncle David, Aunt Robin, Jameela, our cousin Catherine, her son Gabriel, Katherine's mom Ginny, and her husband Brown all came. I enjoyed telling stories about fishing and sailing. It was particularly fun to talk to Brown because he knows a lot about sailing.

This picture is me and Jack with Gabriel

After a lunch feast, Grandma Pam's godson, Rob, his parents, Jamie and Laura-Lee, and Laura-Lee's dad, whose name I can never remember, came for an Easter egg hunt. Laura-Lee's dad was very nice to talk to. He told stories of how his grandfather hiked into Leadville during the Silver Rush. Jamie, Jameela, and I hid eggs for Jack, Rob, and Gabriel to find. I was not part of the kids group by my own choice.

Unfortunately, Jack woke up and puked all day on Patriots Day. We watched two horse movies: Spirit and National Velvet. I left to visit Rob, Jamie, and Laura-Lee's house where they used their pizza oven to make delicious pizza for dinner. After dinner, they played bluegrass music all on instruments that Jamie had made. Jack was feeling better, having woken up from a nap, and was soon running around with us. The music was wonderful.

On our last day, we toured many historical sites. We mostly learned about the first fight in the Revolutionary War. Jack wrote about it in more detail but I thought it was very interesting too. We went to Starbucks for lunch and then an ice cream place. We stopped to walk around Walden Pond. We had another night of pizza and bluegrass music with Rob and his family (no complaints from me!). We went to bed early because we had to get up early to go to the airport for our flight back to Fort Lauderdale as unaccompanied minors. We even enjoyed the  layover in Atlanta where we were given free snacks and soda while playing on the X-Box that was in the Delta Airlines unaccompanied minor room. - Porter