Part III; Massachusetts

For our 3rd week we drove up to Boston. Katherine, Andrew, Alyssa, Joseph and Timothy were so nice to let us invade their home for a while. On Saturday, they took us to Walden Pond. There was a little beach area and the weather was so nice. Timothy and Luke had fun getting to know each other while the other kids dug a wading pool. It was so much fun! The next day, Alyssa and Kaelyn really got into building butterfly gardens. Nate flew back to DC that evening after we celebrated (after the fact) Katherine's birthday with a pinata. The kids and I got to stay the whole week. It was great for the kids to have cousins and their neighbors to play with!

We spent a day at Drumlin Farm where the kids got to dig in the dirt, see and touch animals and even go on a hay ride!

We also had fun swimming and the kids got to play at the Boston Children's Museum. Kaelyn made a giant bubble around herself and the kids spent a lot of time rolling golf balls down all sorts of tracks. There was also a life size computer game where they could dance and jump around. Then we picked Nate up from the airport and the next day we headed to Plymouth, where the Mayflower arrived a few hundred years ago. We visited Plimoth Plantation where we saw how the early English settlers and Wampanoag Indians lived. After that, we went on board the Mayflower II (a replica of the original, also with actors on it). Then we went to the old cemetery to see a memorial for one of Andrew's ancestors who came on the Mayflower.

Wampanoag village

Inside an English Settlers home

The Mayflower II

And, of course, we saw Plymouth Rock, which isn't as big as it once was...