Boston

Next on our list for summer fun was Boston!! One of my favorite places. I was so excited to have Brad meet all of my family that lives there. A lot of them were able to come to our wedding but not all so this was a chance for everyone to meet the hubby.

Brad having lobster at Quincy market

The first thing we did was go to Quincy market for some food (well first if you don't include fighting the downtown traffic for an hour to try to find a parking spot for under $20) Brad went straight for the lobster and I followed close behind with lobster bisque. Yum!


watching videos with the family at Auntie Jen's



Brad was wonderful and spent a lot of time with my family! We had a BBQ with them at my Auntie Jen's and everyone came to visit. Brad found 2  hockey shops that he really wanted to visit. One of the shops had a basement that was all goalie gear, it was like hockey heaven for him. At first I had fun trying on masks and blockers that were huge on me....then two hours later I was ready to go haha but he really enjoyed himself and I'm hoping he'll buy new gear soon.

We spent Mothers day in Newport. Gorgeous! We went with my Auntie Theresa and her two daughters Olivia and Shelby. We ate lunch by the harbor and then did the cliff walk. The mansions along the walk are incredible. Before leaving we went to the Newport creamery to enjoy some awful-awful's :-) best milkshakes!

We walked some of the freedom trail, ate a lot of sea food, and had a blast with all of the family. Of course you can't be in Boston and not see the Red Sox so we headed to fenway for a ballgame! We invited some of the cousins and had so much fun! The Red Sox won in extra innings and we were right behind home plate to celebrate the win!!!

 We were sad to have to head back home and it was only made worse when we got stuck in Denver. All of the planes that were going to land 10mins after us were re-routed to SLC....seriously the only time I wish my plane would have been late. Then they kept us in the terminal with most of the gates open. No big deal right? Wrong because it was snowing and I was NOT dressed for snow. Finally around 1am we decided to stop waiting and find a hotel. 5mins later they announced there would be no more flights out because they were out of de-icer hmmm. At least we had found a hotel right before. Then we had to go try to find our luggage that was literally all on the ground in a wet heap with along with all the luggage for every other passenger waiting. While Brad tried to track our luggage down I went to get a shuttle.....oh wait shuttles were done about 15mins before and they were not sending out any more. So we had to talk to random people to see if anyone was going the same direction and wanted to split the over priced cab fair. Denver has no hotels next to the airport so having to go at least 10miles in a cab at that time was a little difficult to work out. Eventually we got to a hotel. We were worried because our luggage was wet so we quickly took out our belongings....most of Brad's was wet and my clothes and souvenirs were dripping water when we pulled them out. Thank you to the airlines who decided to leave our stuff in the snow for hours and for being kind enough to tell us you only cover dry cleaning not water damaged straighteners, cameras or anything else of importance haha. We were lucky and caught an afternoon flight so we were able to sleep in unlike some of the people we met. And the hotel had a restaurant so we had an enjoyable breakfast and on our way back we were able to catch a shuttle :-)
We were sad to have to go back to work but wow what a fun vacation!!!