Monday, April 28, 2008
April27,2008 Symphony
Today we slept in probably the latest ever! It was 12:30 in the afternoon before all of us were up for the day. I had gotten up about 8:30 and was reading a book but after a while I fell back asleep because it was a dark day her in Boston and it did not feel that late. I am reading the Twilight series I have finished book 1 & 2 and am starting the 3rd book tomorrow on the plane. So we all got up and had breakfast(leftover dinner from the night before) We showered and then we were off to ride the subway to the symphony. We arrived about 10 minutes before it started. I was glad we had made it because the blue line was closed because of a gas leak on sat and they were trying to fix it. We saw the Orchestre National De France with special guest David Fray as a piano soloist. The conductor was was Kurt Masur.David Fray was a 20 year old piano artist, he was great. He had the whole piece that he played with the orchestra memorized. They play Beethoven Piano concerto no 2 in b-flat Major Opus 19 all three movements. Then there was an intermission. Then they played Tchaikovsky's Symphony no 5 in e minor opus 64 with all 4 movements. The conductor has no music for the whole piece it was amazing. Mark liked the last movement the best and I liked it all. We then made it to Houstons in Quincy Market for dinner. I had Prime rib with a baked potato and mark had a steak with a potato. They could not serve mark fries because the restaurant had lost it gas line the day before. After dinner we went back to Tedann's and watched Extreme Makeover and played cards. We also had to die for Chocolate cheesecake.
April 26,2008 Six Flags New England
Today we got up and drove to Springfield Mass which is about 90 miles away from Boston to go to Six Flags New England. We arrived about 12:00 and it was a beautiful day. It was about 65-70 degrees and the sun was out and very little wind. We rode rides all day we thought it was really funny that the first 4 rides we went on broke down as we were in line. We think that the part was not ready for today because there was a cheerleading competiion going on at the park and there were LOTS of teenagers, so we think they did not have enough staff to run the park as well as it should have been ran. Anyone that knows Mark knows he loves roller coasters. We rode roller coasters all day!! The one that we all liked the best was called Superman it went 77 miles an hour and had a huge first drop!!! It was a 2 1/2 minute ride pretty long for a roller coaster. We had lunch at the park. We stayed until they closed which was 8:oo. We then had to brave the 2 hour drive home. We all were hungry so we stopped at a Cheesecake factory for a very late dinner. I had chicken, Mark had tacos and we ordered a Godiva Chocolate Cheese cake to go. We arrived home about 12:3o and we all went right to bed!
April 25,2008 Sandwich Glass museum
Today we got up and had breakfast and got ready to leave Provincetown.On our way back to Boston we stopped in Sandwich. We stopped to look at the Sandwich Glass Museum. It was very fun museum. We were able to watch an actual glass blowing demonstration. The young lady that gave the demonstration was making a wavy glass bowl.Sandwich had one of the first glass making factories in the new world. Then we made our way back to Boston. We did laundry and made dinner and watched a movie.
Our 15 anniversary April 24,2008
I can't believe it Mark and I have been married for 15 years today. We were married in the Salt Lake temple 15 year ago today. There have been many many happy times and a few sad. We are so proud to have 6 wonderful children that we love dearly. We are grateful for great parents that have helped us out and have loved us and our children. We are grateful for good friends and great neighbors and a great place to live in Utah. We are grateful for Marks job that helps us sustain our lives her on this earth and we are blessed I am able to stay at home with our beautiful children. We are so blessed that we can be together and for the love that we share between each other.Today we had breakfast at our bed and breakfast. Then we went walking and went for an adventure in Provinceton. We walked all around the town and then we went to the beach. At the beach there was a stone walkway over to a lighthouse about 1 1/2 miles out in the ocean. We walked the walkway out it was a beautiful walk because the tide was coming in and it was a great way to spend time with each other and have to rely on one another because the rocks were very uneven and I was so scared because we were so high in the air above the ocean. We went to dinner at Betty's by the seashore. I had fish and chips and mark had an hamburger. Then we went back to the hotel and watched a movie. I am grateful for all I have and grateful that I can spend some time with Mark here in Boston.
Plynouth Apeil 23,2008
Today we got up and got an early start out of Boston for our trip to Plymouth and then to Cape Cod for our Anniversary. We first stopped at Plymouth rock which we were not able to see because they are renovating the building around it. Next we went and saw the replica of the Mayflower did not want to pay to get on so we just took pictures and left it at that. Next we wanted to see the Plymouth plantation I was a little uneasy because it was 24 dollars a person and was not really sure I wanted to pay it. But decided in the end we probably would not be back so sucked it up and went. They showed you a movie about the the plantation there is 4 major exhibits they include a Wampanoag Homesite,a 1627 English Village and a Crafts center and a state pier.The plantation is where men and women portray residents of the early settlement. They have actors really role playing how the english settlement really was in 1627. They had women in the houses cooking what the people would have eaten, they had men telling stories of how it was back then. They also had homes and garden sites you could walk through to see how they lived. In the Wampanoag homeside these people are not actors they are really indians. They were dressed in there heritage clothing and you were able to ask them questions and they would give you there opinion from a today's stand point.After the plantation we made our way to Provincetown which is on the very tip of Cape Cod. We checked into our Bed & Breakfast called the Crowne Pointe. It was very nice. We went to dinner and I had a chicken sandwich and mark had a hamburger. After we made it back to the B&B we watched a movie and enjoyed our time together.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
April 22,2008 The Boston Temple trip
Today we kind of just enjoyed each others company until 11:45 because Tedann was going to come pick us up on her lunch break to take us to the temple in Belmont. When we arrived at the temple it was gorgeous. The temple only has sessions once an hour so we made it for the 1:oo session. They were so glad mark and I had come so we could be the witness couple there was only 11 people in the session. Mark and I enjoyed being together and feeling of the spirit on our trip. After the session we waited for Tedannn to pick us up. Then on our way back to Boston to park the car and to have dinner. We ended up at a restaurant named Houstons in Quincy Market. Mark and I had prime rib it was great. Then we went to Tedann's played cards and watched Cash Cab . I made homemade fudge so we could have Ice cream sundae's for dessert it was a fun day.
April 21 2008 The Red Sox Game
Today we got up had breakfast and left Tedann's house about 9:30. We walked to the Subway station so we could get to the Red Sox game. Today just for your info is Patriots day in Massachusetts. They are also running the Boston Marathon today. So on the subway there were lots of people going to cheer on there family members on the route. Also just to let you know to run the marathon and to get a number you must have ran a marathon before and have a good enough time to even get a number. Now just to let you know there was15,000 or so numbers given out.People from all over the world come and run. The mens runner that won was from Ethopia and he ran the whole 26 miles in 2 hours and 7 or so minutes! Amazing the women runner was from Kenya and she ran it in 2 hours and 25 or so minutes. Lance Armstrong also ran the marathon his number was 100 and he ran it in 2 hours and 52 minutes. He said the marathon was harder than the Tour de France!! On the subway we met people from Quebec and a doctor from Hungary that had run the race it was a lot of fun. I have taken up running this year with my friends in my ward and it has been really fun. The Saturday before we left for Boston I ran 5 1/2 miles in 1 hour and 10 minutes. Amazing considering that is the farthest I have ever ran without stopping !!!! Now on to the baseball game we made it there on the subway about 10:15 and we entered Fenway Park. We had great seats.About 15 rows up from first base. It was very intresting to me to watch the people. The food was kind of expensive so we did not get anything there a drink was 4.75 and a bag of peanuts and popcorn was that as well. Beer was the most popular I think we would watch people go up and downthe stairs with 2 cups in their hands and then after they were done with those 2 off they were again for more. The game was really good we saw the missionaries on the jumbotron and we saw many balls hit people. In front of us a few row a ball was thrown by the bat boy into the stands intended for a young boy and a man stood up and the ball hit him in the head bad. He had to have medical attention and it was not pretty.The Red Sox won the game against the Texas Rangers 8 to 3. Thanks Tedann for the tickets it was a very fun day. After the game getting back to Tedanns was very slow we ended up being on the subway for 40 or so minutes because of the influx of people using the subway because the game had just let out and a lot of the marathoners were ending there run as well. For dinner I made chicken and homemade onion rings for tedann and mark. Tedann had not had real onionrings since she found out she had celiac like mark.
April 20,2008 Salem Massachusetts
We ate breakfast at Tedann's house and then we were off to Salem. It was beautiful day today and we did not need jackets . Once we arrived in Salem about 45 minutes away from Boston we made our way to the House of the seven gables and to Nathaniel Hawthorne house. The admission was 12 dollars to get in and they took you on a tour through the house. The house was made famous by fiction Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a book called the House of the Seven Gables and he also wrote the book The Scarlet Letter.Mr Hawthorne did not actually live in the seven gables home but a relative lived there and then he wrote about it. Hawthorne's home is also on the property and overlooks the breathtaking view of salem harbor, derby wharf and the Friendship boat. The home was built in1668 by a man names John Turner. Three generations of Turner's lived in the home until the last Turner lost the home and the family fortune. It was a beautiful home to show how they lived in the 1600's. Nest we went to the Peabody Essex Museum. First we stopped and had a drink then we went on an audio tour of a 200 year old Chineese home called Yin Yu Tang. The museum brought it over to the United States and rebuilt it piece by piece next to the Museum. It was incredible how these people lived even up until 1980. There was usually 15 to 30 people living in the home and they had no electricity, a very small kitchen to fix meals, very small beds that 2 or more people slept in and a beautiful courtyard outside.You could not take pictures inside the home sorry, but I did get a picture of what the outside looked like and it is amazing. After our video tour we went and looked at the exhibits about the Yin Yu Tang. The house stood in the rural village of Huang Cun in the mountainous region of southeastern China. The ancestral home of the Huang family. It was moved to the Peabody through a partnership between the museum and the government authorities of Huizhou,the home region of the Yin Yu Tang. We watched three different movies concerning the Chineese exhibit they were fascinating. One was on the marriage of a girl and young man of the region. The couple the man was educated the young woman was not but the young mans father still let them get married. In China when the couple gets married they live at the home of the groom. In the movie the mother and sisters of the bride were crying very hard because to them marriage and going to live at the in laws is like bride is dead. The family no longer has contact with the bride because she will be living with the inlaws. This young ladys mother felt bad because her daughter did not have an education so in her dowry or money she sent with the young lady on her marriage journey was 900 pieces instead of the normal 300 it was all the mother had and she wanted to let her daughter know she loved her very much. I found it very intresting that the young man gets to choose the furniture for the new couple the furniture he had made was pink. We also went into the museum and saw beautiful thing about shipping boats. Pictures replicas and other thing pertaining to sailing. There was also an exhibit about tatooing. After our adventure at the museum we headed back to Boston. We walked to a restaurant by Tedann's house calle Jose Mcintyres. Mark had ribs and I had fish and chips. It was very good Tedann says they make the best Margaritas!
Monday, April 21, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
April 18 2008 lexington @ concord
We stayed at Tedann's house this morning just hanging out and having fun together. As soon as she got home from work which was about 1:00 We headed to Lexington and Concord. on our way we stopped at the Cheesecake Factory for a belated lunch it was fabulous. We all have extra yummy chicken dishes,but we were so full we did not get any cheesecake,bummer. Next we went to Waldon pond State Reservation. Waldon pond was once home to the renowned author Henry David Thoreau. Now part of the Massachusetts Forests and Parks system, Waldon Pond state Reservation includes 462 acres if protected open space so that vusutirs from near and far may come to experience the pond that inspired Thoreau, as well as to hike, swim, fish, canoe and cross country ski. A replica of Thoreau's house is also close to Waldon pond and we visited it as well.Next we were on our drive to Lexington and to the Minute Man National Historical park is located. They were preparing for the reenactment of the battle of Lexington and Concord to start the Revolutionary War. It happened on April 19 1775 . We missed the reenactment by a day but there was plenty of men dressed in there early American atire preparing we asked them if I could take there picture and they said sure. After our trip we talked at Tedann's place and watched a movie.
april 17,2008 Paul Revere's house Boston Gardens
Mark and I started the day eating breakfast at Tedann's house. Then we made our way to the Paul Revere house on the Freedom Trail.It was built in 1680's and was owned by Paul Revere from 1770-1800's.On April 18, 1775 Paul Revere left his North Square home, slipped out of the city in a rowboat,borrowed a horse in Charlestown, and began rudung. His mission :to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington that British troops were marching from Boston to arrest them and seize munitions hidden in Concord.Paul Revere died in 1818 aged 83, having contributed not only to the cause of American liberty, but also to the cultural and industrial independence of a new nation. We then headed again on the freedom trail to Faneuil Hall.It was built in 1742 it included an open market and also a meeting space for the town government. The lower level of the hall was divided into stalls which were leased for market purposes.The large meeting room on the second floor became Boston's official town hall. Here in public session Bostonians debated issues, elected town officials, voted local taxes, and spent town monies. IT was a structure that the first rumblings of the American Revolution were felt. Next we saw the New England Holocaust Memorial. It features six luminous glass towers, etched ith six million numbers in memory of the Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Its towers are set on a black granite path, each over a dark smoldering chamber bearing the name of one of the principal Nazi death camps.The six towers recall the death camp chimneys, the six million jews, or a menorah of memorial candles. We them went to an very old cementary in the middle of town. We them stopped for a treat at a downtown Wendy's for a a frosty and french fries. Next we made our way to the Boston public Gardens. There are guides dressed up like the early settlers of Boston to guide you through if you want but we deceided to just walk by our selves. We kept seeing signs for the Boston Marathon they will runit on Monday April 21. I did not know that you had to qualify and show them a specific time that you can run the marathon for them to let you get an official number to run, very intresting. There are also some swan boats that can take you on the pond in the middle of the gardens, they were gearing up for opening day which was going to be Saturday so we were not able to ride. Then we just sat and looked at Gods beautiful creations and talked for a while. We ere eating some peanuts and a squirrell must have smelled us and came right up to Mark. So mark continued to feed him for a while, I was kind of scared when we were out because the squirrell wanted more. Also in the gardens are bronze statues of the duckling from the book Watch out for ducklings which made the Boston Gardens so popular.Next we made our way to meet Tedann as she was getting off work so we all could go home together. We then made meatloaf and potatoes at her place for dinner. We then watched August Rush it was very good and right up our ally with lots of music in the score.
Friday, April 18, 2008
April 16 2008 Boston USS consitution Breeds hill
We got up about 8:30 and had breakfast at Tedanns. Angela made eggs and we also had fruit. We then were off for the day. We started walking on the freedom trail. We then made it to the USS Constitution. We went on a guided tour from a Navy sailor. It was very interesting to see the old ship. It is the oldest commissioned ship afloat in the world. It is a wind powered only ship. We also wentto the USS Cassin Young DD-793 a World War 2 Destroyer. It is an example ofthe type of ship built, repaired, and modernized in the Charlestown Navy Yard. Next we went and saw the USS Constitution Museum it had lots of exhibits that gave you information about what the USS Constitution was used for and about the Sailors that were aboard it. We watched a movie about the Consitutions history. We then made our way to the Bunker Hill Monument on the Freedom Trail. Did you know that the Bunker Hill monument is actually on Breeds hill, but many people fighting in the battle thought they were fighting on Bunker Hill. Bunker hill is located just to the north of Breed's Hill. This is the first major commemorative monument in the United States. Several small monuments were erected at Yorktown and West Point before construction began on the Bunker Hill Monument. We walked to the top of the monument there is 291 steps to the top. I made it ok but Mark had a hard time but he was a trooper. We then made our way to the Old North Church. It is the church that Paul Revere saw the lanterns warning approach of the British Army. We also saw the paul Revere Statue in the gardens. We then made our way to Joes American Bar and Grill for dinner. Mark had GREAT barbeque ribs and barbeque chicken and french fries. I had a chicken club sandwich with fries it was great. We then went back to Tedanns and read and talked with her.
boston trip April 15-29 2008
April 15 2008
We had Brian Marks brother pick us up to go to the airport. We arrived at the airport about 6:15 and then we checked in and went through security. Our flight to Chicago did not leave SLC until 7:40. On the airplane I read the twilight book and mark read a Star Wars book. We had a cereal bar and peanuts. We landed in Chicago about 11:30 and had a layover for about 1hour and 30 minutes. While we waited in the airport we reviewed our Boston brochures and tried to plan a few things that we would like to do on our trip. We then headed to Manchester New Hampshire.We had crackers and peanuts on the plane. We landed about 4:30 And met Tedann Marks sister by baggage claim in the airport. We then had an hour drive to Boston. We then when to her apartment it is gorgeous. She lives in Harbor towers on the 14 th floor. We then went and walked to one of her favorite Italian restaurants. Mark lamb and I had pumpkin ravioli. Tedann had rizotto with shrimp in it. We then went back to her apartment and talked and watched Biggest loser.
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