A snapshot of Beantown!

It's been a week since we've been back from Boston. Life got in the way of me updating the blog, but I got a few minutes (thanks to the Wiggles) and thought I'd put out a few pics from our trip. Man, it was fun. We had a "late season Nor-Easter" roll through our first "full" day there.

We're lucky we flew in the night before. But it dumped about 10 inches of snow on us that day...just happened to be the day we had slated for "touring" the city. We did walk around the Common area and saw some famous sites. But because Brooke was with us the bitter cold and heavy snow led us to do a great "driving" tour of some other spots (Harvard Square in Cambridge, Fenway Park, Beacon Hill etc...).

(US in front of the Green Monster)

How lucky were we to have a native Bostonian to navigate around the city. TJ was awesome, he knew how to get EVERYWHERE. I'm from St. Louis and you get me in the "city" and I have no idea how to get anywhere unless it's right off of 70. We had lunch in little Italy. Before we left, we were told we had to have cannolis at "Mike's Pastries" in Little Italy. Our Boston friends said the same thing...so we bought a couple of cannolis and a WHOLE Boston Creme Pie. (Keep in mind this was my 3rd Boston Cream Pie of the trip (including a Boston Creme Donut) and we just arrived yesterday afternoon).
That night we were snowed in and it was absolutely our favorite night of the whole trip. We stopped by James Hook on our way out of the city and picked up some (as TJ would say) LOBSTAHS. Check out the size of this creature...

It is the biggest Lobster I have ever seen. His claws are bigger than my head. His tail is curling up a bit, so you cant see exactly how long he is, but he was HUGE! It weighs as much as Brooke!

I probably have more pictures of this night than any other. Lots of pictures like this... Letting the lobsters have a bit more fun in their short life left.

(How an Okie eats a lobster...sandwich)

We had a blast. Taylor and Brooke liked each other...but aren't at the age where they really interacted a whole lot...except to steal each other's binkys (right out of the mouth).

And St. Patty's Day...good lordy. Claire (TJ's step mom) watched the girls for us so we had a "free pass" to get a little crazy. We started off by touring the Samuel Adams Brewery

(which is in no way even close to the Anheuser Busch tour)

but the "sampling" at the end was far better than Busch's tasting. It was really cool. Then we had to visit some Irish Pubs...it IS St. Patrick's Day, right?

Kate Bosworth was at the booth behind us. You may be asking "who is that?"...we didn't know either-but she's an actress that was in the last Superman movie and I guess she dated Orlando Bloom. She's actually very pretty. The bouncer rattled off a few other films but I didn't recognize many of them.

We ended up at the legendary Cheers...which I really just had to see (and which looks nothing like the 'set' of Cheers from the inside).

Us doing Cheers! in Cheers... And Wade and I with the gang:

We spent our last night in Providence, RI. We spent some time at Providence Place and toured some of the old homes (we're talking early 1800's here)...the kind of history you dont get in the mid-west (or southwest depending on your opinion of where Oklahoma is). We drove the harbor and got out to look at a lighthouse. We really wanted to do a lighthouse tour while we were there but the weather and time of year just didn't cooperate. Guess we'll just have to go back in the summer.

Beacon Street and Legal Seafood are a must if you ever go to Boston. Legal (hands down) had the best Boston Creme pie...I should know, I gained 5 pounds in my quest to find it.

Great trip, great food, great friends, great fun...

Dedicated to Heath and Pearl

Heath and Pearl came through Tulsa on their way back to Kansas City (from San Antonio) this past weekend. They complained about their "lack of mention" in the blog so here is an entire entry dedicated soley to them. No more complaining now...

We really had a great time. Last night we went to see Sugarland at that Brady Theater. This was part of my b-day present from Wade and (bonus) Heath and Pearl went with us. Although they were not as "familiar" with their music, it was a great show.

We also took them to the "Center of the Universe"---which yes, is in downtown Tulsa... and some of you thought Tulsa didnt have anything to offer.

Other highlights of the trip were the kids getting to spend quality time with Uncle Heath and the soon to be Aunt "Puulll". Riley is getting better with the name. Last time we were with them she was "Perch" so she is improving. We ate at this German restaurant we've been wanting to try for a while now, & we all got different things so we could taste a bunch of different stuff. I can't pronounce what Pearl got, but we all agreed hers was the best. Heath got the best dessert...German Chocolate Cake (even though the waitress tried to talk him out of ordering it).

Again, I beat everyone at Risk...but what's new there? I AM Grand Master Champion after all, even though I'm the only one in the family that HASN'T been through military training. Even Pearl is in the National Guard...but we'll give her (this one time) a free pass since it was her first time playing.

We're leaving Wednesday to drop off Riley and Cade with Grammy. They are going to have so much fun with her and their cousins Aiden, Kate', & Kelsey (their aunts and uncles too). Brooke is going with us to Boston. I'll let you know how Boston is....Lets pray for some unseasonalby warm weather there.

See you soon Christy!