Memorial Day weekend in Boston

All right, people. We have a lot of photos to get through, so I'll make this short. For the second year in a row we drove up to the Boston metro area for Memorial Day weekend and spent some time in the city and some time with family in Framingham. We also spent an inordinate amount of time with dinosaurs. Photos follow.

Every picture in this series is too cute (in my skewed opinion) not to share.

Here are more photos of Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill, CT. We stopped here on the way up. It has one of the largest collection of dinosaur tracks in the world and was definitely worth the price of admission.

Being a she-dinosaur with very long eyelashes

Rex the T-Rex receives a mica glitter shower before his big date

The sluice is loose

Aunt Meg with a darting H (fueled by ethnic meats) in the background

This series is from the Museum of Science in Boston

She's got the famous Ward waddle that prevents her from accomplishing 'normal' speeds

Channeling his inner Alice Cooper (ala the 1989 rock classic Bed of Nails)

Memorial Day BBQ in Framingham with family

Exploring the Freedom Trail ... a red (mostly brick) path through downtown Boston that leads to 17 significant historic sites. Of those, we saw 12.

USS Constitution (a historic warship named by George Washington and also known as "Old Ironsides")

A short ferry ride later ... 

... and we were exploring the Freedom Trail

We're listening to practicing violinists at the King's Chapel

H had cheetos and is most likely cleaning up remnants 

Our trip ended in Boston Common, where there was a Memorial Day flag display and a friendly dog

Mother's Day in DC ... and other things

Sup, faithful friends, family, and lonely web surfers who typed in something like 'what to do in DC on mother's day." Well, to answer your question, we didn't do all too much. Let's start with 'other things' part as mentioned in the title.

I've been trying to make tooth brushing more fun. And, except for me, it has been.

On the way to DC by way of a birthday party in Doylestown, we stopped by an Open House at a fire station in New Hope, PA. In addition to a jaws of life demonstration and fire trucks you could touch, they happened to have this awesomeness, which H absolutely loved.... 

 

Mother's Day started with a lovely breakfast in Opa and Grandma's in Alexandria. The kids wore Dusty out.

Finally, Mother's Day. Here's 3/4 of the fam outside the natural history museum.

And here's a separate 3/4. Looks like I'm trying to do math in my head.

We taught the kids about evolution. Sorry, Kansas Board of Ed

Three generations. E needs sunglasses and an over-the-shoulder purse 

At home with "Cookie dough" popsicles (almond milk, choco chips, vanilla extract)