Boston Day 4: Castle Island and Bunker Hill

 The first few days of our trip were cool and felt like fall. Then we had several days of temperatures in the mid 80's! We took advantage of the warm weather and spent a day at Castle Island. Such a fun place!

We played on the playground

 {Cailyn could have spent all day sitting on this Kangaroo}

 toured the fort,

 (when Cailyn, who loves all things "beautiful", saw this girl wearing a tutu, she said "Mom, she's so beautiful; she's my friend!")

 played on the shore,

Rylee's collection of colorful seashells

 ate hamburgers,

 and played in the water again.

Rylee adopted herself into this family.

Cailyn took it upon herself to get all the rocks out of the water. This is more of a pebble-y beach than a sandy one. You can guess how that went.

Then we drove over to the Bunker Hill Monument. 

Quinn told the girls the story of the battle that happened on the hill where we were sitting.

Don't you love Cailyn's belly peeking out?

 Rylee had been complaining of being too tired to walk and wanted us to carry her. But once she heard that we could climb up the stairs to the top of the monument she said she wanted to do it. We told her we would do it if she would climb all by herself. Always up for a challenge, she was suddenly no longer tired. Funny how that works.

At the 100th stair...because 100 is her all time favorite number!

View from the top.

She made it! All 294 stairs by her little four year old self!

She is turning into quite the little portrait poser, this girl.

My calves were sore for three days after climbing, but Rylee was just fine! Granted, I carried Cailyn all the way up and down...she was in one of her Mommy Only moods...