03.16.10

Boston Rain-Out

Posted in Family, Travel at 9:50 pm by rachel

We spent 24 hours in Boston this past weekend to see Laura and Corey, who were in town for the Seafood Show. Boston is a 3 hour drive from us now, so it seemed a shame to miss them being so close. We booked a hotel through trusty hotwire.com, packed it up and off we went, through hour after hour of rain.

We met up with Laura and Corey on Saturday afternoon at a margarita place that warmed us up, then we walked over to Quincy Market to see something quintessentially Boston, despite the rain. We got majorly soaked. It was that drenching kind of sideways rain when it’s cold and the wind picks up and turns your umbrella into a helicopter.

Recovering, Regrouping

Quincy Market was actually packed with people beginning their St. Paddy’s festivities four days early. We are talking pub crawls with matching T-shirts at 5pm kind of festivities.

Hide and Seek

A certain someone took the liberty of removing a balloon from an ice cream shop’s balcony. It was filled with helium, but Jax did a great job of holding on to it for a surprising amount of time. Then the inevitable float to the ceiling happened.

Bye-Bye

Corey, Laura, and their friend Shannon from Seafood Watch

Once we made it back to our hotel, we found out it was connected to quite an elaborate mall. Under normal circumstances, hanging out all evening and the next day in a mall would seem like a depressing way to visit a city, but this was in the middle of a Torrential Downpour. And there was a Wagamama’s in the mall. And a Legal Seafood. And wide open hallways for running.

We also used the hotel’s expansive lobbies for chasing and exploring.

Best amenity of all? The pool! We literally didn’t go outside from Saturday evening until we drove away to head back to New York on Sunday afternoon. Laura hadn’t seen much of Boston before, so I’m glad they are staying until Thursday to get a real feel for the place. For us, the real draw was hanging out with my awesome sister and brother-in-law!

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