Thanksgiving in Boston

We have just got back from enjoying our Thanksgiving in Boston. We had a great time with our friends, Chris and Tara. We spent a lot of time visiting and eating! They showed us around Cambridge (Harvard and all the cool shops near their home). And we also spent a day in Boston, seeing the sights and walking Freedom Trail. Boston is a beautiful city. We were lucky and had nice, sunny weather for the weekend. Here's some pictures of our trip.

Chris and Tara in the kitchen, preparing the turkey dinner. Mmmm, it was good! Especially Tara's pumpkin pie!

Jason getting ready to eat.

Walking around Harvard.

Outside one of Harvard's library (dedicated to a boy who drowned with Titanic).

Boston's skyline.

Jason and I on Beacon Hill.

The Other Cambridge

We are going to Cambridge MA, tomorrow to spend Thanksgiving. It will be fun to see the "other Cambridge" after living in the first. We are going to be staying with some friends that we met in England. It will be fun to catch up and EAT!! They are preparing the WHOLE meal, so Jason and I just have to show up with ourselves and eat. That's very nice. Besides eating, we are hoping to tour Harvard and Boston.

We are taking a ferry that leaves from one of the most easternly points of Long Island and goes to Connecticut. I haven't been on a ferry since I lived on Thetis Island.

Happy Birthday to Matt and Papa Olfert. They just celebrated their birthdays together in Lethbridge. We would have loved to have been there to share in the celebrations. But only four weeks and we will be in Lethbridge to celebrate Christmas! Here are some pictures of the birthday boys.


I have joined up with a few girls on another blog. It's called "Ladies of Leisure". Can you guess what it's about? It's a blog for people (well, women in this blog) who are in a situation that allows them to have plenty of time to focus on things other than work. We decide that it would be fun to share our projects and our "leisure activities" with each other. I'd like to think that shopping is my project but I do have other talents as well.

Home Sweet Home

I've promised that I would post some pictures of our new little home. So here they are. I took most of the pictures the day I cleaned the house before my friend, Lisa came. (I thought the place actually looked presentable).

Here's the outside of our apartment building, this is the front. Our place is on the back.

This view looks into our kitchen.

This is the living room. Notice, no tv. Still waiting for new tv to be delivered.

This is the entrance. We live on the first floor. I love my orchid. I hope I can keep it alive. Although, I have managed to have a new bud flower since owning it.

The "work area".

Here's the view we get from our windows. This is the "Misty Pond".

This is my favorite picture of the pond. Fall is pretty gorgeous out here.

This is a sad little picture of the defective tv that was delivered to us this week. We are now waiting for a new one to be delivered. (This looks like Judge Judy was on at that moment).

The green lady and a charging bull

My new tv arrived today, but after getting it set-up (with the delivery man supervising), I discovered that the screen was all messed up. So, I had to send back our tv and wait for another one to get sent. Too bad. We did get a tv lent to us by one of Jason's co-workers, so we are not completely in the the dark.

My friend Lisa was here last week. We had a great time. We went shopping alot! She needed some new maternity clothes and I just needed clothes. Here are some pictures of our adventures...

Here's two small-city girls in the BIG city. We went to New York on Friday. Spent the day shopping, drinking pumpkin spice lattes (thanks to Lisa, I have a new addiction supplied by Starbucks), and enjoying a show on Broadway. We went to the show "Hairspray". We really enjoyed it. The cast was super-talented and the story-line is really entertaining. I went to the Macy's on 34th Street. They were setting up the Santa's Corner and there was a sign saying "Miracle on 34th Street". So, my little brain finally connected all of that and then I realized that I haven't even seen the movie "Miracle on 34th Street", so I guess now I'll have to watch it.


Here is us at the beach near our place. We went for a run in the morning-ish (we had a late night in New York). Lisa still kicks my butt and she's 5 1/2 months pregnant.



We went back into New York on Sunday (this time we took Jason with us). This is a picture of us eating some famous NYC food. Hot dogs and pretzels from a street vendor. Just getting our energy before touring the Statue of Liberty.






This is a picture of the view you get driving into Manhattan.

Lisa, in front of the charging bull, near Wall Street. This picture turned out so much better than I expected because there was actually a lot of people around the bull and I didn't think we would get a chance to get in.


Jason and I in Central Park. You might not guess it in this picture but the ING New York Marathon was still going on and the finish line was only a few hundred feet from where we were. Mind you, it was going on 7 hours from the starting gun, so the place was pretty cleared out. No Lance Armstrong around. But there was still a pretty steady stream of people coming in. I don't think anybody would want to do a marathon after seeing people coming in after being out running/walking for seven hours. It just doesn't look fun. 'Course, some people would stay that even running for half an hour doesn't look fun either!