Boston - Days 6 & 7

Day 6

On our way to the Boston Tea Party Museum, we passed the carousel in the park open, so we went for a ride. It is probably the cutest/nicest/sweetest carousel I've ever been on. Plus, Callum and I rode in a boat that moved like it was on waves! Super fun.  

Then we went to the Boston Tea Party Museum. I am a bit of a history nerd, so I totally loved this. And the kids enjoyed throwing the "tea" over into the water. Really, it was just Callum that didn't enjoy it so much because he couldn't just run around most the time. Also, funny story, there was a vlogger on the tour with us. It's kind of funny watching people film themselves for other people to watch.

^^ You threw the tea boxes over, then pulled them back out of the water to do all over again. My kids did it over and over. Everyone left the ship and there my kids were, still doing it. I finally made them leave when the tour behind us was coming. 

We had so much fun at the children's museum on Monday and Friday evenings only cost $1, so we went back for a couple hours. 

Day 7

We took the subway out to Fenway Park. We walked around it, watched some people try to get the players attention as they pulled their cars through the gated area. Then we walked a bit more to get Callum asleep and enjoyed lunch at a brewery across the street from the park.

Then we took the subway back to the area we were staying because our bags were stored over there. But, we still had time to kill, so we took the kids back to the playground we went to the other day. We had the place to ourselves and the kids played for a while before asking if they could "go to the gym"...there was a pokemon go gym at the Paul Revere statue right next to the playground.

I was getting a laugh about how my kids will be in the back of everyone's photos, playing pokemon go. 

From here, we grabbed our bags and ubered it to the airport...for our not so pleasant trip home. Evening/night flights and toddlers DON'T mix. And Callum's tired screams scarred me from wanting to be on a plane with a toddler for a very long time. But outside of the plane ride, the trip was fun. I always enjoy exploring new places and trying a bunch of good food. Boston did not disappoint. 

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Boston - Days 4 & 5

Day 4

We took a ferry out to one of the Boston Harbor Islands. We chose the one with the shortest boat ride and the best views of the city. Callum was a bit of a handful on the boat there, but slept pretty much the whole time we were on the island, so enjoyed the boat ride back. We walked around the island before letting the kids play in the water. The island was really beautiful and a fun place to explore. The view of watching the planes take off from the airport was reason enough for me to go to the island! I was thoroughly entertained by that. 

After we got back to Boston, we walked to get a lobster roll. It was one of the things I really wanted to eat while we were there. It was quite tasty, but boy are those things pricy! 

Then we went and let the kids play in one of the splash pads on the greenway. This particular one was pretty intense, so Callum stuck to the sides. 

Day 5

We to the T out to Cambridge to see Harvard. The campus was beautiful. And it was so incredibly busy with tourists. I told Connor that my friend Mark went to Harvard and Ian gave me a look, like "really...", as I was meaning Mark that started facebook. The kids played pokemon go at Harvard and had fun doing that. And Ian and I enjoyed walking around looking at the beautiful buildings. 

Right across the street from Harvard is the only Curious George toy store in the world, so we stopped in there for the kids. Connor got his first ever mad libs and we had fun playing with it that night. Then we went to the most adorable, and tasty, bakery before heading back into Boston. 

We went to the swan boats in the public garden. We got there just in time because it started raining and we were the last group that got to ride before they shut down. Just across the street is a big shopping district, so we went walking around. We had some drinking chocolate, that literally tastes like you are drinking a candy bar, it's so sweet. 

Then we picked up some groceries on our way back to our apartment and ate dinner there. Speaking of that, there are two things I love when traveling with our kids. One is staying in a two bedroom place. It makes it so much easier for getting kids to sleep and us getting to hang out in the evenings. And two is staying in a place with a kitchen and being able to eat breakfast there every morning and making dinner if we want. It makes traveling with kids so much easier! 

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Boston - Days 1-3

Day 1

We started our adventure to Boston on such a high. We couldn't get a room at one of those park and fly hotels, so drove over the morning of our flight. We had to be on the road by 4am. We got ready, packed the car, then took the kids from their beds and put them in the car. Surprisingly, none of the kids cried. The drive over went well and we made it to the airport with plenty of time to spare. Callum was getting pretty tired when we were boarding the plane. I thought this would be prefect. We would get in the air and he would konk out. Well, the joke was on me. That kid refused to nap and was on edge for hours. Finally, the seatbelt sign went on, which sent him into a full on meltdown. He was screaming hysterically for maybe 15 minutes before calming down and going to sleep. He slept for an hour and a half and woke in a better mood. 

We got to Boston and went to our airbnb apartment. Then we took the kids to a deli, picked up dinner and took it to a park to eat. I'm guessing because of our early morning start, all of us got on east coast time right away and went to bed at our normal time. 

Day 2

We woke to pouring rain. But we were full of optimism and decided to head out. We stopped at the Quincy Market for some food to escape from the rain, on our way to the children's museum. We made it about half way to the children's museum before our jackets had soaked through and we were now being soaked, so threw in the towel and got an uber for the rest of the journey. We should have just done that from the beginning! 

Anyway, we spent several hours at the children's museum and only left when it closed. By then the rain had slowed, though not stopped. But we decided to walk home anyway. We stopped at a chipotle we saw for dinner before continuing on home. The kids were super tired from playing all afternoon and went to sleep super easy. 

^^ This climbing contraption went up three stories!!! And lucky for us parents, the only exit was back at the bottom. 

Day 3

We took a trolly around Boston to kind of see the highlights. The only stop we got off at was MIT in Cambridge. We ate lunch at a food truck on campus, went in a building we weren't supposed to be in to let the kids go the bathroom and got in trouble for the kids playing on a monument on campus that apparently isn't supposed to be played on. MIT is a very kid friendly campus, haha! 

After the trolly ride, we stumbled upon a bunch of hulahoops in the park and the kids played with them for a while. Ian would roll the hulahoops and the kids would run and jump through them while they were rolling. They were actually quite successful at this and it was also quite entertaining to watch. 

^^ Isla saw some older girls doing this, so decided to give it a go

The Paul Revere house is literally right around the corner from our apartment, so we hit it up on the way home. What's really crazy is they have several pieces of Paul Revere's furniture still and it all is in very good condition and a few pieces look like things you would find in homes today. 

I wasn't quite ready to go back to the apartment, so started walking around and following this church steeple. We never got to the church because we stumbled upon a park just after I took this picture and the kids played for a while. Isla made a little friend and the mom (who is from Boston) said she knew of Modesto because of Scott and Laci Peterson. #awesome

We left the park and picked up some really tasty pizza on the way home. And, again, from such a long day, bedtime was super easy. 

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