Red Sox Day
Cranky has also posted a prayer he found on craiglist. Take a look here!
GO RED SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quietly cruising through life without a fuss
GO RED SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This morning, the rain came back at 4:00 am. I heard the thunder and listened to the rain pounding the roof until I got up at 6:00. Why was I getting up early on a day off? I was heading to Boston to run in the Tufts 10K. My friend Lynn and I drove down and met a few other friends. With fingers crossed, we headed to Boston Common for the race. The rain stopped for awhile and then started up again 5 minutes into the race. It rained for about half the race, and then cleared up. Geez, I was only running for about 50 minutes; you'd think I could've gotten a break on the rain. We still had a great time. Here's the gang after the race:
To commemorate the occasion, I took her and her friend Samantha to New York City. Here they are waiting to get on the plane in Boston:
After the short flight to NYC, we caught a ride to Times Square. This was right after we were dropped off:
We walked around Times Square, ate lunch and checked into our hotel a few blocks away. After dropping off our backpacks, we took the subway to Chinatown. We shopped on Canal Street (I showed the girls how to haggle for goods.)
Then we ate cannolis in Little Italy:
I wish we had eaten dinner in Little Italy, but we had tickets to the Broadway show, "Spamalot" and we had to get ready. Mary consented to a picture with mom:
This show was hilarious!
The next day, we went to the Museum of Modern Art, commonly referred to as "MoMa". This is my favorite painting by Van Gogh:
After the museum, we walked to Central Park and bought lunch from a street vendor. I figured that was enough for the trip so we headed back to LaGuardia and caught the 4:30 flight back to Boston:
Hopefully Mary will have fond memories of her 13th birthday! Now if only I can survive the next 5 years!
Watching him ride makes me smile. He's an excellent driver and has a great time. (Sometimes we can hear him singing.)
This weekend Cranky and I are taking off by ourselves. My mother is watching the kids and we are going hiking for a couple of days!
Can you believe summer is half over?!
Labels: family, motorcycles, summer
Have a wonderful weekend!