Day 18 - Heading Home
Today was a loooong day! We said goodbye to Grandma and Grandpa they left on their genealogy hunt in New Hampshire. It's been really exciting watching them find clues to try and find missing family members. They have been searching libraries, emailing people and scouring the internet for missing information. They got some great clues and are headed to New Hampshire to try and find Enoch Davis. I could see myself getting into that when I'm older. It's like solving mysteries and hunting for buried treasure, but you're connecting people and families and building up the kingdom of God!
After we packed and cleaned we headed into Boston to spend the day before our flight took off at 5:30pm. We did a drive-by of Harvard. I just wanted to see what it looked like. Very cool old, red brick buildings. It was almost like a wall of buildings around the campus with gates leading to the inside but we never went through any gates since we were just driving by so I don't know if that's right or not.
Then we headed to Boston Harbor to visit the New England Aquarium. It was honestly the best aquarium we've ever been to! They had this center ocean tank that went up 4 stories that was unbelievable! You could wander up the spiral ramp that went up and watch for hours! There were huge turtles, huge rays, hammerhead sharks, huge moray eels, tons of huge fish, divers scrubbing the coral (it's not real coral). It was fascinating to watch. They had dozens of other exhibits coming off at each floor, a great "touch tank" for rays and sharks and another with tidepool creatures. The kids were in heaven!
We got to the airport with plenty of time. Security took forever. We had dinner at Panda or Wendy's. I got a salad at Wendy's at was enjoying it on my lap when Mikey ran up, bumped the container and the whole thing went flying. So much for enjoying my overpriced $8 salad.
They loaded us on the plan around 5:15, rushing and rushing everyone to try and make our 5:30pm departure time. Then we just sat there. Finally the captain came on telling us that there was some weather we were waiting out and we'd get an update in a half an hour. I closed the window on our aisle and Mikey and Isaac had no idea we weren't moving. We finally started taxiing out to the runway around 7:10pm and the boys looked up and said, "What? We haven't even left yet?" Fortunately they were awesome! (Thank heavens for iphones to keep them busy! I hate that but there's a time when you have to just embrace it. On an airplane is that time for me). We had another 5 hours 20 minutes to go until we landed in Salt Lake. I think I probably had a harder time. It felt like forever! Cramped legs, my seat wouldn't recline and for the last hour and a half I had two boys draped over me asleep. But we made it! We found out after we landed that we were waiting out a thunderstorm that had settled over Boston with funnel clouds over Fenway Park! Yikes!
We finally got home around 1am Boston time. It's good to be home!!
After we packed and cleaned we headed into Boston to spend the day before our flight took off at 5:30pm. We did a drive-by of Harvard. I just wanted to see what it looked like. Very cool old, red brick buildings. It was almost like a wall of buildings around the campus with gates leading to the inside but we never went through any gates since we were just driving by so I don't know if that's right or not.
Then we headed to Boston Harbor to visit the New England Aquarium. It was honestly the best aquarium we've ever been to! They had this center ocean tank that went up 4 stories that was unbelievable! You could wander up the spiral ramp that went up and watch for hours! There were huge turtles, huge rays, hammerhead sharks, huge moray eels, tons of huge fish, divers scrubbing the coral (it's not real coral). It was fascinating to watch. They had dozens of other exhibits coming off at each floor, a great "touch tank" for rays and sharks and another with tidepool creatures. The kids were in heaven!
We got to the airport with plenty of time. Security took forever. We had dinner at Panda or Wendy's. I got a salad at Wendy's at was enjoying it on my lap when Mikey ran up, bumped the container and the whole thing went flying. So much for enjoying my overpriced $8 salad.
They loaded us on the plan around 5:15, rushing and rushing everyone to try and make our 5:30pm departure time. Then we just sat there. Finally the captain came on telling us that there was some weather we were waiting out and we'd get an update in a half an hour. I closed the window on our aisle and Mikey and Isaac had no idea we weren't moving. We finally started taxiing out to the runway around 7:10pm and the boys looked up and said, "What? We haven't even left yet?" Fortunately they were awesome! (Thank heavens for iphones to keep them busy! I hate that but there's a time when you have to just embrace it. On an airplane is that time for me). We had another 5 hours 20 minutes to go until we landed in Salt Lake. I think I probably had a harder time. It felt like forever! Cramped legs, my seat wouldn't recline and for the last hour and a half I had two boys draped over me asleep. But we made it! We found out after we landed that we were waiting out a thunderstorm that had settled over Boston with funnel clouds over Fenway Park! Yikes!
We finally got home around 1am Boston time. It's good to be home!!
Logan and I are loving all of the aquarium pics!! So cool!! Glad you had a great trip and make it back safe! :)
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