Becky Takes Boston

Apparently we left out a very important visit that happened this past spring. (You'll note it is not in the May-Oct timeframe that the previous post was updating everyone on so the complaint department could have chosen to ignore the request.)

In April Becky came to visit for a whole week. We didn't think we could handle her for that long, but somehow we did...

Casie spent most of the trip making up random history facts for no apparent reason. It was entertaining to see what we could get Becky to believe as they became increasingly outrageous.

We went into Boston a couple times, including a trip to the Boston Public Garden where Becky found herself a little follower. I guess when you're the cool kid everyone wants to be like you.

There were a couple brewery tours where Becky found her new love...Harpoon's Raspberry UFO. While it's probably a stretch to say Becky made a scene during the Samuel Adams tour, she was definitely the focus of the tour at one point. That point being when she, for some unknown reason, decided the best way to taste beer on the tip of her tongue would be to stick out her tongue while beer was in her mouth. If you can't picture how this would work...that's because it doesn't work. You just spit out beer...and some would say make a scene. :)

We met up with Alec & Michelle for Becky's birthday where she had her first Black & Tan before we headed to the North End for some dessert. There was a random street performer overdoing the Italian accordian player role that Becky found amusing and snapped a quick picture of. Since she neglected to offer any donation, the guy actually chased her down the street insisting she delete the picture. Note: There are no pictures of this for obvious reasons.

We also went to freeze our toesies off at a Red Sox game. It was so cold that they stopped trying to sell beer and simply offered hot chocolate, coffee, and clam chowder.

We caught the end of the Boston Marathon when Scott and Laura came into town for a day. For some reason the Puma store was giving away free beer. The unexpected nature of stumbling upon 12oz of free beer may have made this the highlight of the trip.

Then we met up with Alec, Michelle & Jason for dinner (Ben was traveling for work so he missed the family pic).

Becky also had her first Yuengling beer, ate her first Five Guys burger, and went to her first comic book store with Ben one afternoon.

Somehow we all survived an entire week and we only sent Jackson to wake Becky up once...okay maybe three times.