Kristi's Visit to Boston

Last weekend one of my best friends Kristi was here visiting. I've been quite spoiled with all of the friends visiiting! We had a great weekend celebrating her birthday and just hanging out. Friday I picked her up from the airport and we had lunch at Florentine's, a cute restuarant in Boston's North End (our Little Italy.) It was a gorgeous day so we walked the dogs with Julie, Jason and Eliza over at the loop where I take Tucker a lot. We came home, changed and headed over to see the kids get ready to go Trick or Treating. We had fun walking around the neighborhoods. Agterwards, We headed to J&J's for pizza and pumpkin beers before calling it a night.

Saturday we got sort of a late start but headed in town to catch a Duck Tour, the easiest way to see the city and all of it's history. It was cooler than we expected so of course we had to go shopping to find a coat or warmer sweater! :) We made our way to Newbury Street, deadly for a shopper like myself! H&M was busy but had some great stuff and we both walked out with a bag of loot! We walked through the public gardens before heading to Beacon Hill for lunch. We decided that since it was so late, to just head to the store and have taco night at home. Instead of going out, we were nerds and stayed in and played board games. The night ended with Kristi and I trying to remember all of our old cheer dances until we were out of breath and realized we are just too old! LOL! Unforunately, Kev was taping our pathetic attempts and it was NOT pretty. Those won't be surfacing on YouTube anytime soon thank goodness!

Sunday we decided to do something different than the local Boston toursity stuff and head somewhere very historic that I've never even been to. Salem! Yes, the home of the Salem Witch Trials from the late 1600's. Not only was it full of history, but it's the cutest little town nestled on the North Shore with beautiful views of the ocean. We visited the House of the Seven Gables, known mainly as the inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne's book. We took a tour of the house and the grounds which was pretty cool. It inspired Kristi and I to re-read that book as well as The Scarlet Letter, his most famous read. We had stopped off at Witch House, but it was just a house where one of the judges in the trial had lived (not that exciting.) We headed to the With Museum that had a great informative tour of what exactly happened during the Salem Witch Trials and the history of the city in that time. It was a great day, perfectly sunny with a touch of chill in the air!!

It was a great weekend and I'm sooo happy Kristi was able to come out to spend the weekend and her birthday with us! Love you Krist! XO

I was mildly obsessed with this red fire station door in Salem!
Kristi and me on Halloween...we went as ourselves :)At Boston's Public Gardens