On Saturday we joined up with Aunt Sue, Helen, Amy, Brian, and Kaelina and caravaned to Beverly MA where Sue’s son Adam and Kristen live. The fed us a wonderful breakfast and we were entertained by the cat “Tech” and Kaelina playing together. Also little Sue joined us from nearby. Adam was going to the Red Sox game so we gave him a ride into Boston and we all drove to Cambridge for a short visit with Elli and her husband Tom who live near where Helen spent part of her growing up years. We split up for lunch. Brian went with Helen and Sue and they had lunch and went to the place the Duck tour starts. We took Kaelina and put her down for a nap and then got takeout again so we could eat while monitoring Kaelina back at Matthew’s house. After Kaelina woke up we joined the rest of the gang at the Duck tour. The Duck tour is conDUCKted in a WW2 restored amphibious Duck fitted out with bus style seats to accommodate 32 people per Duck. Half the tour is on land (like a normal vehicle) and half is on water where you chug around Boston at about 6 mph. Our driver/conDUCKtor was very entertaining and educational. We saw a lot of sights/statues/ landmarks that we would otherwise have missed. We think we saw the helicopter that transported Ted Kennedy to Massachusetts General Hospital after a seizure. We happened to be on the water right by the hospital when the landing happened.
After the duck tour we drove to Faneuil Hall in the heart of Boston and had dinner at one of the many restaurants there. We were eating outside and the people watching was terrific. It must have been prom night because we saw lots of people very dressed up going by as well as many normal tourists. Because of her graduation on Sunday Amy stayed with us in Cambridge at Matthew’s house and Brian, Kaelina, Helen and Sue went back to Sue’s house near Manchester NH. I put some pictures up on Flickr and called it a night.
I forgot to mention yesterday that Helen flew into Boston and drove straight to Sue’s house and met us there when we arrived. Dennis is in Rochester MN interviewing MD candidates in his specialty and was not able to come to Amy’s graduation because of this prior commitment.
Tomorrow is Graduation Day!