Visit with family

My little sister was up in the area visiting one of the local schools to look at a graduate program. She came and stayed with us over the weekend.

It was a lovely visit! The remnants of hurricane Earl were wafting around the area so we decided to stay in on Friday night. We got Thai takeout and watched "A Very Long Engagement".

The bad weather cleared out overnight, and we had one of the loveliest days we'd had in a long time! After brunch with bagels, we drove into town and visited the aquarium. (We'd hoped to try a whale watch, but it'd been canceled because of the hurricane weather, alas!) Then we strolled around the historic North End, ruining our appetites with lovely Italian pastries, and then picking at our food at a little hole in the wall Italian restaurant. (Sadly we couldn't take home the leftovers, as we weren't heading home afterwards!)

After ambling along part of the Freedom Trail, we headed over to see "Blue Man Group". DH and I have been a few times, and had tried to get tickets for Laura and Charles when they were out here many years ago, but the show was all sold out. Fortunately we had better luck this time. The show had been updated a bit since I last saw it, and I missed a few of the old segments, but it was still quite an experience (very much unique and hard to describe, so I won't even try!)

(On tap for Laura's next visit - which will be years from now, as she's heading off for a couple of years to do her master's at Oxford: whale watching, the whole Freedom trail... and we'll look into scuba in the area, since she's certified and expressed some interest in doing that here.)