East Coast Trippin'!

We had such a wonderful time in the East Coast. It was filled with so many memories. After all, it's where Chris went to school, where I was a nanny, where we met, had our first home and had Sam! It was also fun to make so many new memories. We walked A LOT and wished we'd had many more days each place we went.

New York City was our first stop! We took the redeye Halloween night and arrived at 5:30 in the morning (2:30 our time-yikes!). We found a mini-van taxi that could hold us and all of our stuff! We checked into our hotel and we hit the pavement. We spent the first day doing some shopping and seeing the Empire State. Let's just say EVERYTHING takes more time with kids. But it was worth it. The next day we spent in Central Park and the Museum of Natural History. Later we went to Columbus Circle and saw the sights. The last day Chris and I had to sit through a time share spiel and we waited in line for a Broadway show. Then we took the subway to the Statue of Liberty, Ground Zero and Wall Street. Later that night we saw Mary Poppins. And then we packed up our stuff and headed up to Connecticut!

We got to Stamford, CT. late Saturday night. The next morning we went to our old ward, the Stamford 1st Ward. It was fun to still see some familiar faces, though most had no idea who we were. Our singles ward bishop's wife did remember us and it was so great to see here. Then we took a tour of our old life. It was amazing to see how many things had changed and how many things had stayed the same. We showed Sam where he was born, where we lived before and after marriage and visited Tod's Point. A park area on the water where Chris and I spent a lot of time while we were dating. My favorite part was driving up to W. Redding and dropping in on my Nanny family, the Archers. Two of the three girls I nannied were there (the third is at Notre Dame!). It was so fun to see them and they were so nice. The only bummer is I forgot to take pictures! It was a nice day and a bit emotional too. We left that night for Boston.

Our final destination-Boston! Chris had fun visiting all his old haunts and showing us around. We stayed in Cambridge and spent most of the first day at MIT. Geek Central! Dad told us fun stories and showed us around. There were a lot of new things to see too. Then we walked across the bridge and into Boston. We spent time in the Public Gardens and Boston Commons and met the friendliest squirrels we had ever seen! They walked right up to us and we had a bag of crackers that the kids fed them. They took it right out of thier hands! Well, that's all the kids wanted to do for the rest of the day. We could not pull them away. It really was cute though. We visited an old gravesite-which both Sam and Maggie hated. And then went to Fanueil Hall and to Pizzaria Uno for dinner and went and saw the Bee Movie for Family Night. Our last day it was raining. But we were so fortunate to have awesome weather for most of the trip. We packed up, did a little shopping and flew home! It really was a great trip-I hope we can get out there more often.