I'm sorry, friends. I have been GONE. It took me two days after we got back from vacation to even turn on the computer, and this past week I haven't done more than try to get caught up with work and email. So much has happened, things I want to blog about and things I'm not sure I can put into words. For now, I will share that in the past few days, we have lost our church and our school, and I feel like two of the most important people in my life have just died. I know we will be okay, God is already shining a path out of this darkness, but it will take me a while to straighten out my head and my heart. Right now I can't even look at the pictures from the last day of school this morning, so it might be a while before this is something I can blog about.
So, let me just back up and spend a little while remembering the wonderful trip that Davis and I took, and the reason for my absence last week. We went to Boston and Maine for our tenth anniversary - no kids! - and it was AMAZING!
Tuesday night (this is way back on May 17th, folks) we packed up the kids
and sent them off. Okay, that was hard. We've never left them overnight with anyone, and this was for FIVE DAYS. But they were so excited! Well, the girls were excited, not Henry my velcro baby. The girls went to their grandparents' and asked Davis to leave ha ha! Henry stayed with my friend Carla and her family (their dog Macaroni is now in therapy) and after a tearful/screamingful goodbye, he was completely happy the whole time.
We left early Wednesday morning and arrived in Boston around lunchtime and checked in at our hotel. Oh my gosh. This bed
I woke up the next morning and said "I'm never getting out of this bed!" I really think it might be the most comfortable bed I've ever slept on! BLISS. We stayed at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel, and if you are ever in Boston, I couldn't recommend it more highly! Of course there's the small chance that being on our first child-free vacation since our honeymoon was just so awesome that ANY hotel would have been THE BEST EVER :)
Here's a goofy picture of me I had to have (Karla this one is for you ha ha ha!)
The view from our room looked out on Trinity Church,
and apparently the tallest building in Boston, but we couldn't see it because of the fog! We ventured out into Boston after showering (and stuff). It was really foggy and drizzly and WAY colder than forecast. I don't have a ton of pictures, partly because I kept forgetting to take them and partly because it was just hard to get good ones with the weather.
Boston Common was so beautiful. Really, really beautiful. Like dorks, we sat around on park benches and read about history on Wikipedia on my phone.
Can you spot Davis in this picture?
They had a Paper Source store!! I LIVE on their online shop and didn't even know they had a brick and mortar (literally of course, since it's Boston) store. I wandered around the store saying "Davis pleeeeeease can we move here?" while he rolled his eyes.
We walked forever, miles and miles, and it was totally fine even with the rain. I was just happy to have my honey's undivided attention :) We stopped at King's Chapel, which was really cool and made me think some day it would be awesome to do an Episcopal history tour of the East Coast - yes I am that dorky ha! I have no idea who this guy is, I just took this picture to show that there were monuments on pretty much every block of this city!
We ended up in the North End neighborhood, which I LOVED. It had so much character.
We stopped for a quick beer (water for me of course) at an Irish pub and then went to Neptune Oyster for dinner. I relied on Yelp a lot this trip, since I wasn't familiar with this part of the country, and as usual it was hit or miss, but this was a for sure hit! One of the top five dinners I've ever had, for sure. If you're in Boston - go to Neptune Oyster and have the HOT lobster roll (unlike the cold mayonnaise versions, this one is just a HUGE pile of perfect lobster with lots of melted butter on a yummy toasted bun with the BEST fries)
I want to hop on a plane right now and have another! We ate lobster every day, that was part of my plan for this trip!!
The next morning, Davis woke up way too early. Actually, we both woke up at 6 every morning - those kids have us well trained! I had no trouble, no trouble AT ALL, just laying in bed another couple of hours. But that would have made Davis crazy, so he wandered off for a little while and came back with some Dunkin Donuts coffee for me
It was a joke between us when we were up there - there was a Dunkin Donuts on EVERY block up there (Boston and Maine)! It was crazy. I have never seen any chain (McDonald's, Starbucks, CVS...) with so many stores. I guess those Northerners love their donuts!
I VERY reluctantly left that bed so we could get on the road. We drove around town a little more, but the view was like this
I never saw water! We drove down to the harbor, but the fog was too thick. I have a TON of pictures from Salem and Maine. I loved Maine - like I have been looking for jobs up there kind of love! More of that to come...
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I am so sorry for your loss! Sounds like you had a wonderful vacation! Loved your pictures.
Oh how I love Boston! I loved seeing your pictures!
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