Visiting, more visiting, and there will be….more visiting! (Boston 06-12-13)

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”                       
   Henry David Thoreau

It was our plan to do more sightseeing during this visit to Boston but several things have conspired against us.  First, we’re kinda busy, and second, the weather has been really lousy.  It’s rained more than half the time we’ve been here.  In fact, we saw on the news that New York is set to have one of the wettest Junes on record, and I am guessing Massachusetts is right behind them!

We have had an opportunity to spend a lot of time with friends and family though.  We invited Jack and Roseann, who we’ve been friends with for 20 years, over for dinner.  We laughed all night, recounting horrific boating stories with our kids.  Jack and Roseann are getting close to retirement, and we are trying to entice them into buying a 5th wheel.

   


Jess spent one of her few days here with her step-sisters. They all came back to the trailer afterwards for a fire and s’mores.

Jess goofed around taking some pictures and a friend of hers and Stephen’s added some appropriate verbiage.

I went out to dinner with 4 friends who I have known since before I remember.  We all grew up in the same neighborhood. All but one of us are in the picture on the left, taken many many years ago:















We tried to spend some time when Jess was here just hanging out at the trailer:




 

Our son told us about a hike called Purgatory Chasm, and we’ve been antsy to check it out.  However, on the park website it clearly states not to attempt the hike, which is mostly on rock, if has rained or the rocks are wet.  There hasn’t been a really dry day yet, so no hike for us. We did manage to make it to Walden Pond, made famous by poet Henry David Thoreau:




    

I’ve been here a few times, but surprisingly, this was Paul’s first visit. While we were hiking around the lake- about 2 miles or so, depending on which trail you take, an amazing amount of people were swimming the length of the lake. We talked to one woman who said the water temperature is actually not too bad- high 60s.

Paul and I have also been doing some summer planning, even going so far as to make a few reservations!  We’ll leave here on Tuesday and stop in Acadia to hike for a few days before heading into Canada.  

We always find time while in Boston to visit my uncle and aunt, who are two of the best people I have ever met. My aunt is originally from PEI and is Acadian. They are headed up to PEI for a family wedding in late June, so once we are in Canada we’ll head to PEI so we can time our visit with theirs.