Boston Miscellaneous

 Here are a few fun pictures from our trip that haven't been posted yet:

The girls with Uncle Kerry and Aunt Marianne

 Backyard Zipline

 (As much as Cailyn loved the zipline at Zion, she didn't like this one...she wasn't able to hold on well enough to feel secure.)

The girls loved playing with the dogs. Cailyn called the Hopkin's black lab, Micah, "Mike." She would walk around saying "Where's Mike?"

Rylee also loved Elena and Sofia's puppy, Maggie...

Pretty view on the flight home.

 Free entertainment on a cross-country Southwest flight (:

 Cailyn passed out towards the end of the second flight. We didn't change planes before the third flight, so before the new passengers boarded, Rylee spotted the pilot walking past us. She asked "Are you the pilot?" They got chatting, and before we knew it, he had invited her up to sit in the cockpit!

Captain Roy, Rylee, and Sella

I'm telling you, this girl's confidence will take her far in life; this is not the first time that her outgoing personality has gotten people to bend the rules for her, without her even asking! OK, well sometimes she does ask...notice the bear. This bear belonged to Marianne, but Rylee loved it and named her "Sella". Then on our way out the door to the airport, she asked Marianne "Can I buy Sella?" Marianne accepted payment in the form of hugs and kisses, and needless to say, we left Needham with an extra bear.

Shortly afterwards, even the energizer bunny got tired and slept for most of the flight from Kansas City to San Diego.

We had such a fun trip! The girls are still talking about the trip two weeks later and saying things like "next time we go to Boston..."

It will be a while, but we'd love to have a next time (:

Thanks so much Marianne and Kerry!

Boston Day 6: The Children's Museum

 We had planned on using our last day back east to go to Salem, but decided at the last minute that it would be too much for the girls - they needed a break from the historic sight-seeing. So instead, we made it their day and headed for the Boston Children's Museum.

 We rode the train into the city

 and then walked the block and a half from the train station to the Museum.

 Then we played all day!

 Rylee's favorite part of the whole day was going to this audience participation play; the girls and I all got chosen to be "dancers."

 Everyone loved the bubble station.

 We spent a long time playing with the different ball stations.

 Arthur!

Rylee's "Castle"

 Afterwards we walked back to the station to catch the train home.

Boston Day 5: Plimoth Plantation

 Plimoth Plantation was a fun place to visit;
the little village is built to look just like the one that the pilgrims lived in, and there are actors on site who play specific people who came across on the Mayflower. They have researched their characters in depth and will talk to you and answer all kinds of questions.

 

As soon as Rylee saw these chickens, she said, "Look, there's Sarah, Vanessa and Nigel!" She still remembered their "names" several days later.

Petting the cow

Inspecting the Oyster shell she found on the ground.

This lady told us that 11 people lived in her little house. She also said that the flower Cailyn had been holding was used in salads and as medicine.

 We took a quick jog over to the Indian Village

Smoking out a tree trunk to make a canoe.

Close-up of a bed (sticks) and pillow (split log). I think I'd prefer the ground...

In a canoe

 Posing once again...

The Mooflower

 Then we headed over to see the Mayflower II - replica of the original Mayflower.

 

The girls loved testing out the various beds.

 They giggled and played with this cradle for probably 20 minutes.

(I think a cradle on a ship has to be either a brilliant idea or one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard of...I'm not sure which; would the waves rock the baby to sleep or tip it over?)

These ladies were singing traditional hymns.

 And then we saw Plymouth Rock. Very underwhelming...I always imagined it to be huge, but it was actually pretty small.