Vacation...Monday through Saturday

Sunday night we had cake and ice cream for my uncle's birthday. Avi enjoyed helping him blow out his candles and licking the frosting from them too.

Monday - Brandon, Avelyn, Michelle and I headed up to Pawtucket to meet up with Hillary, Dale and Luke at the PawSox game. It was fairly rainy initially but cleared in time for the game. We stayed through the 7th inning and that was the extent of the kids' attention span. We headed back to the beach and played around the yard a bit and then the kids took a bath. We had clam chowder for dinner that night.

Tuesday was Avi's birthday so she enjoyed waking up and having everyone wish her a happy 3rd birthday. We spent the morning at the beach and then the kids took naps. While they were sleeping Brandon's folks arrived. When the kids woke up we opened presents, sang happy birthday and ate cupcakes - Avi taste tested the frosting from each color for us! Aunti Shell headed home after the birthday festivities. That night we took Brandon's folks out to eat at Iggy's for seafood and doughboys. Yummy!

Wednesday we spent the morning at the beach just walking around and playing in the shallow surf. Hillary and Dale headed out before lunch and then Brandon and I took his folks to Newport to walk around and get lunch. The place we had lunch had a cute fountain out front with kids fishing poles and magnetized fish to keep the kids busy while they waited for their food. We headed back to the beach house after lunch and Avi finished her nap. That night we had lobster for dinner and ice cream for dessert.

Thursday we went to the beach again after saying our goodbyes to Brandon's folks as they headed back up to Boston. Brandon spent the morning fishing and picking up the crab for that night's dinner. Things were starting to wind down at the beach house for us.

Friday we finished packing up our things and headed west to Connecticut to visit my grandfather. He was very excited to see us and had been known to be waiting at the front door for his visitors but we beat him to it and met him in the hall of his floor at the home as he was heading to the elevator on his scooter. We took a nice walke around the grounds to visit the fountains out front then headed in to show him the pictures from our visit to the beach. He loves to keep track of his family for sure. After our visit we headed up to Boston. We hit some traffic but made it to poppy's in time to eat some dinner - grinders - and then get ready for the Red Sox game. The forecast was not promising but we headed downtown. There was a light drizzle when we got to Fenway but we figured it would let up and we'd seen them play in worse weather. We found our seats which were under the overhand and began waiting for the game to start. They made a few announcements about the delay and then cancelled the game for the night due to weather as thunder and lightning had arrived. So Brandon and Avi went to get the car and poppy and I made our way out of the stadium and met them in Kenmore Square. We got back to poppy's at 10:00 and waited up for Brandon's folks to get home from the visiting with Don's family.

Saturday morning we all got up and got showered. Carol and Don headed to the airport around 10:30 and Brandon found the schedule for the Omni theater so we headed to the Museum of Science to watch "Wild Ocean". The film was only so-so and Avi was pretty much traveled out. We headed downtown to get some Red Sox gear, get my wedding band/engagement rings cleaned, and to eat lunch. Brandon checked our flight and it was delayed an hour. Avi and I took our naps and when we woke up we headed to Arlington for a visit with some college friends. We spent the rest of the afternoon with Parul and Grant and their 2 kids - we played around their house and then headed to the park. Around 6:30 we decided to head back to poppy's for dinner. We made a quick stop to visit nana's gravesite and when we got back to poppy's to check our flight it was now on-time. It was 7:00 and our flight was at 9:30 so we quickly packed up the rest of our things and headed to the airport. We arrived in plenty of time and ate some dinner. The flight was uneventful and Avi slept most of the way. We landed on time and got home at 2:00 am our time. What a long day!

Today we have been unpacking, doing laundry, went to the dog park with Cabo, played outside with the neighborhood kids and now Avi is taking her nap. I'm not sure why I'm not sleeping right now but my body just wouldn't let me rest so I figured I'd update this blog.