This is a journal of our experience in Amy’s graduation weekend.
We left Boulder Thursday afternoon around 1:30pm for DIA. Our flight was supposed to leave at 3:34. The trip was uneventful, but when we got to Wally Park the self park was full and we “got” to take valet parking. Should be nice on the return trip. 🙂 We went through normal security on the south end of the terminal. It seemed to take longer than normal (we usually go through the terminal A flyover security) but wasn’t able to compare the length of the lines. There was no plane at the gate when we got there and United Airlines posted a notice that we wouldn’t be leaving until 4:00pm. They finally started boarding at 4:00pm and I think we took off about 4:30. On a direct flight it wouldn’t matter but we were on a connecting flight to Chicago and then had another plane to go to Boston. It all worked out alright but we did not have a relaxing layover in Chicago. We needed to get something to eat there and had to eat quickly. Of course we disembarked at the C terminal and our connecting flight was on the B concourse. That meant a long walk underground to get between the two.
The flight to Boston was much better and we actually arrived about 20 minutes ahead of schedule. By now it was after midnight in Boston so getting luggage and a cab didn’t take all that long. There was very little traffic, but there was night construction on the entrance to I93 that we would have taken so that delayed us a little. We arrived at Matthew Burkley’s house where we were staying about 1:30am and got the key as Ben Sterling had promised and were in bed by 2:00am.
Matthew’s house is in a very quaint section of North Cambridge just off Massachusetts Ave. In the morning we went exploring and found the nearest T (subway/mass transit) stop and shopping center and checked out all the places to eat in the neighborhood. Amy and Brian called saying that they had landed and were on their way to get their rental SUV. So we got some takeout lunch from a nearby cafe and had it ready for them when they arrived at Matthew’s house. After lunch Kaelina went down for a nap and Amy and Janet went shopping at the shopping center, Brian tried out Matthew’s Wii game and I worked on my computer.
After Kaelina got up from her nap we packed up the Dodge Nitro SUV and headed to Manchester, NH where one of Brian’s Aunts (Helen’s sister Sue) lives. Kaelina had a great time looking out Aunt Sue’s back window at some wild turkeys that walk by her house every evening. Sue grilled a wonderful swordfish dinner and we were joined by Helen and Sue’s brother Jimmy and his girlfriend Sue. It was great to see the interplay between the 3 siblings. Aunt Sue had made a DVD of some old 8mm movies from their childhood and we watched part of the DVD before we made our way to the local Marriott Courtyard for the night. This ends Day one (or 1.5 for some) of Amy’s graduation weekend.
See pictures at flickr.com/photos/kws1111/