trendfamily

We started Thursday with breakfast at a South-end restaurant that‘s in its 100th year of business. The food was delicious and the historical photos were fascinating. We will definitely be back!

It was a cold, grey day so we took the T rather than walk to the New England Aquarium.

The aquarium is fantastic, with lots of penguins and a huge cylindrical tank that goes up four stories.

We then went to meet Laura, who wanted to show Colin around Boston Conservatory.

We had a bit of quiet time at the apartment then went to Wagamama for noodles for supper.

After dinner Colin and I came back to the apartment to chill and Cliff went to see Laura’s first performance. It was excellent!

We started our morning with a lovely breakfast at Tatte. Delicious food and especially pastries!

Then we walked over to Boston Common and checked out the Make Way for Ducklings statue, where the ducks all happened to be dressed to support the local team.

Then we met up with a group for a walking tour of the Freedom Trail. We all learned quite a bit more about US history, notably how Paul Revere gets credit for a lot of things he didn’t really do.

The wind was quite biting so we were happy to pop inside Quincy Market for lunch, then checked out the nearby Museum of Illusions, which made us laugh a lot.

The wind had died don so it was a beautiful walk back to our apartment where we enjoyed a bit of quiet time before meeting Laura for a delicious fish dinner.

It is Colin’s spring break and Laura is performing this week! So we came to Boston for a few days.

Thankfully the TSA agents decided to come to work this morning so we didn’t have to multi-hour security lines like they had yesterday. (Since they’re not getting paid, I don’t really blame them for not showing up.)

Colin chose the Boston Burger Company for dinner. He ordered a small Oreo milkshake.

The burgers were delicious with all sorts of interesting toppings. Mine was the Vermonter, with apples, onions, bacon, maple mayo, and sharp cheddar.

We met up with Laura after her rehearsal for hugs and ice cream, but I forgot to take photos.

Hello. I’ll go over our driving days in this post. After our first day on the road, when we drove to Edmunston, New Brunswick, we drove through Quebec to my grandparents’ house. We stayed the night there. We went to a department store to pick up some tools and supplies Dad needed for a project and also got a robot building set for me because it looked fun. We spent the next day at my grandparents’ house. I finished felting my bird, and we played a round of cribbage. The day after that, we drove to my cousins’ house and arrived around noon. Dad went to visit a friend he hadn’t seen in a very long time, and I spent the evening at my cousins’ house. We played some cars games and had dinner. The next day we spent driving to Tennessee, since we decided that we could do a really big day of driving so that we could get home sooner. We spent the last day driving all the way home. We got back very late. Thank you for reading. Bye!         -Colin

Hello. Sorry about not having posted for a while, I had forgotten. Anyway, this is the last week we spent in Nova Scotia. We managed to get the cribbing for our dock to a place that works well and weighed it down with rocks. We had to get the sailboat from a place along the coast since it floated away. I went for more runs. Jordan came over for a day, and we had a lot of fun together. We built catapults and tested them until we got a consistent good distance. We aren’t taking the catapults home with us though! I started to needle felt a little bird. We cleaned up the house on our second last day, and packed. On our last day, we packed and cleaned up, and then we left at around noon. We drove to Edmunston for the night. That’s how our last week in Nova Scotia went. Thanks for reading. Bye!         -Colin

Hello! it’s been a while, so I’m splitting this post into two. this one will end on the day when Laura and Mom left, and the next one will continue the rest. I don’t remember a huge amount, but I’ll try my best! On Friday the 18th I went for a run with Mom again. On the weekend was fairly uneventful. On Monday though, Laura arrived! she really arrived very early in the morning, so I didn’t see her until after my D&D camp that day. I had that on the first three days of that week. On Tuesday, I had D&D camp again, as well as Wednesday. every week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I go for a run. on Friday of that week, however, I went to Splashifax for a second time this summer, with Jordan and Laura this time. We had a lot of fun again. On Saturday Grandmother and Grampy left, and on Sunday Laura and Mom left. D&D camp was fun. On Monday everyone contributed to making a world, on Tuesday we started the adventure, and on Wednesday we ended the adventure. Throughout the week that Laura was here we also played cribbage a lot and kept score of who won. we never really paid attention, though. one day of the time Grandmother and Grampy were here, we had Jim and Lucille over for lunch. Everyone helped finish multiple puzzles through the time we were here. Thank you for reading! Bye! -Colin

Hello! it’s been a busy few days, so I haven’t posted in a while. sorry! anyway, we have had a lot of stuff happen since my last post. We have made very good progress on our chairs. they are almost done! last Tuesday we had my friend Jordan over for a sleepover. we went for a kayak, played some games, and had fun. Jordan and I also went on a walk along the beach and found some cool sticks. We went out at high tide, so we didn’t have as much space to walk along. I hopped across to a big rock and realized I couldn’t really get back again. We both ended up with wet socks by the time we got back. on Wednesday they went home. on Friday, we went to Splashifax again with Jordan. we had a lot of fun. on Saturday, Mom arrived! we went on a run later that day. on Sunday we got a lot of chores done outside. On Monday, my aunt Penny and cousin Tim arrived. We had fun. We started up another large puzzle, and we are still working on it! Mom and I went on another run on Monday. On Tuesday my grandparents arrived. everyone except for Laura was here that day. on Wednesday Penny and Tim left. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, I had an arts and crafts camp with Jordan. On Monday we did some felting, on Tuesday we did modelling clay, and on Wednesday we made T-shirts and did beading. it made the mornings a little hectic, but it was fun. today, we have done some weeding, seen a few families of birds, and made a lot of progress on the puzzle. Mom and Dad went out for a hike most of the morning. also, last week, Dad and I were working to make our dock longer, since it was broken in a hurricane before we got the house. we managed to move the cribbing that held up the farther out end of the dock, which had rolled over onto the beach in the storm, back closer to where it’s meant to be! that sums up the last two weeks! it’s been busy, and a lot of people have been here. I’ll try to keep posting blogs more frequently. Bye! -Colin

Hello again! It’s been pretty normal here. we’ve been building some chairs, and we’ve started to fix the pier by the beach. We have taken out some stairs and support so we can realign the stairs since they are a bit crooked. We’ve gone out shopping for a while today. also, we went to an orthodontist to fix a wire that had slipped out of its bracket and was poking my cheek. We had a fire in the new fire pit on Tuesday. I have gone on a few runs. that’s about what happened in the last few days! also, here are some pictures from the last while. Bye! -Colin

hello! Sorry about not posting in a while. we have had some interesting things happen here! I’ve finished learning all of my letter keys for typing! We’ve started to build some chairs for the backyard. I went to see the How to Train your dragon live action remake, and it was very good. I got a Garmin to help me track my runs. I’ve gone on more runs. We went out to see the seal rocks on the two-person kayak. If you remember seal rock from last year, there’s a small island where a bunch of seals hang out way out from the original seal rock. they are very cute. we played some golf. It’s been pretty busy. we’ve also decided that every week will have a day where there is nothing booked, and we can just take the day off. I got a D&D Lego set, and it is coming along well! I am really enjoying building it. That’s all I can remember for now. Bye! -Colin 🙂

Cliff and Colin have been road-tripping and enjoying the house in Nova Scotia. I’ve been working and Laura has been plenty busy with dance and exercise and getting ready for her travel. But we still found some time to have a bit of fun!

We also went to see a local production of Newsies, but I didn’t take any photos of us.

And that’s the latest from Texas! I have two more weeks here alone and then I’m off to NS.