24 Hours in Boston

Jason and I took a quick trip up to Boston this weekend. I found some awesome fares via megabus.com and we had a great time - literally only 24 hours in the city!

Our first photo, at the site where our ancestors dumped enormous quanitities of tea into the harbor in rebellion against the British.

The beautiful park below is "Boston Commons"

Being tourists, we of course stopped at the bar that the TV show "Cheers" was based on.

Even the State Building was showing their Celtic pride!

Faneuil Hall ...

Boston's North End was clearly the Italian section of town - we loved it!

My FAVORITE part of the "freedom trail" ... a stop at Lulu's Bakery for a boston cream cupcake and some lemon cheesecake - YUM!

Paul Revere Mall ... in bronze on his horse ... depicted here going away from the church where he hung his laterns ... Hmmmm.

Church where Paul Revere hung his lanterns to save the day!

View of the Charles River

Bunker Hill ... and something almost as historically significant ... The Celtics "Garden."

What Jason would look like going to Harvard (pretty cute, I think!).

And, MIT ...

Ahhh...Fenway Park! There wasn't a home game this weekend, but we still had to check out this place!

Jason...touching the infamous "green monster" !!

I'll leave you with this great view of Fenway Park!

Bronx Prep Field Day

Jason left the house this morning for his school's 2nd annual field day event. One of the talented students did the artwork on the t-shirts that staff and all students received to wear at the event (all color coded so as not to confuse students with staff!). Jason has been being warned ALL week by his students to "look out" as they had plans to "get him" at this event ... doesn't sound the greatest, but since they said they were bringing water balloons, we weren't too concerned. Jason went prepared, in his swim trunks!

PR Parade & The Met

I found out last week that with my BofA check or credit card, entrance into The Met Art Museum is FREE on the first weekend of the month! I was so excited about this, because entrance is usually $20 per person and we had yet to visit this icon of NYC. What we had forgotten about was the Puerto Rican parade running down 5th Ave - it took us over a 1/2 hour to worm our way through the throngs of attendees and find a street where it was actually possible to cross the street. We couldn't help be admire the national pride of the Puerto Ricans as we made our way through...

The Met is huge and a little overwhelming (although nothing compared to the Louvre!)...since we'd gotten in for free, we were happy to just ramble around and didn't' feel any pressure to SEE everything! We started in the Greek & Roman art section...
We enjoyed finding a room of Oceanic artwork and even found a tiny display on Tongan tapa mats that had us reminiscing!

In the modern art section - the art was literally on the walls here - actually pretty cool looking!

Jason got into his "artistic" side and tried to become one with the art while I was very happy to find a room full of Degas paintings and sculptures (some of my favorites!).

We finished the day by walking through Central Park, along the 'large reservoir' which as always was beautiful!

Jason goes to Atlanta

Jason left on May 26th for an 8th grade field trip - his school took 50 - 60 deserving students to Atlanta (via BUS!!!) to tour colleges and have a little fun. Among his other duties, Jason was responsible for chaperoning 4 of his male students 27/7 for the duration of the trip...I don't know if I've ever seen him more excited to be home when he returned Saturday night!

Here are a few photos he snapped during their trip:

Ready to GO!!!

Boys traveled on one bus & girls on the other - here's where Jason got to spend 2 nights (lucky him!)

One day included a trip to Six Flags!

Jason's group was very excited to test their skills at the carnival booths - check out the prizes they won!

They spent one afternoon at the Centennial Olympic Park.

Mini-Peace Corps Reunion

Two of our very good friends from Peace Corps Tonga came for a visit over Memorial Day. It was great to see them and just be with people from our group who experienced life in Tonga with us.

Jeff & Jamie came in on a red-eye Saturday morning...after a little breakfast, they were ready to hit the pavement and do some sight-seeing.

The City Hall Park ...



















Brooklyn Bridge and the Staten Island Ferry ...

























City sunset :)














After church on Sunday, we waited for over an hour in line at the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park for our lunch ... well worth the wait!!





















It was an absolutely gorgeous day in Central Park!

Monday morning along the Hudson River, just two blocks from our apartment.