Our get-away to Boston, MA

We spent this last weekend in Boston, MA - a little get-away as our "calm before the storm" of activity that begins this week with our summer schedules. We had a great time as a family - easy flights, a wonderful hotel room and lots of fun in the city. The weather was perfect and we were able to enjoy many outdoor activities.

One of the highlights of our trip was the Duck Tour - a "must" for any visitor to the city. You ride in a WWII vehicle that goes through the city and also in the Charles River. We saw so many historical sites and learned alot. Aurora was invited to be the co-captain for our tour down the Charles River. She loved driving the "boat" and did a great job!

Above this post is a little slideshow of our time in Boston.

Ballet recital

I'm working on editing Aurora's ballet recital pictures...hopefully I'll get them up soon.

Memorial weekend getaway....

Blogger has been giving me fits lately with various problems and so I've had to redo my template a couple of times - hopefully now everything will work and stay the way it's supposed to be.

Anyway, we decided to take a little "mystery trip" over Memorial Weekend. It was kind of impulsive but we felt we needed to just get away from the house and things that would call for our attention and just spend some time together as a family. We travelled 2 1/2 hrs. north to Corning NY and went to the Corning Museum of Glass. It was such a fun "field trip"! We all loved it - very "hands on" and full of fun and interesting things to learn and do.

Aurora and I tried our hands at making something out of glass. She did a sandblast vase for her teacher and I made a glass bead and gave it to her to wear as a necklace. We had so much fun. It was so fascinating learning how they make glass, how glass can break (or not), how they blow glass, shape glass, color glass....

It's definately a worthwhile excursion for the whole family (& very reasonably priced too - kids are FREE!)