Yeah, I've been a slacker at posting anything this summer. We have done a couple fun things. The Tall Ships were docked in Boston for about a month so we went up for a day in July. It was a lot of fun. We took a boat around the harbor and got to see a lot of the ships as well as the local water sights. The tall ships, for anyone who doesn't know (I didn't) are a bunch of ships that go around the world and they are the old ships with the huge masts and sails (like pirate ships). They come from all over the world too. You can get aboard some of them. We got on one from Russia (yeah!) named the Krusenstern. It was really cool seeing all the writing in Russian and hearing it from all the crew and a bunch of the "tourists" too. I miss the Russian language. It was along day and Toma was a bit cranky by the end, but we had fun.
We've had a couple trips down to NJ for various stuff. a good friend of ours, Jared Stanley, finally tied the knot, so Tia and Toma were able to go down to NJ for that. We decided to get a membership to a zoo in Providence and it's one of Toma's favorite places to go, so we hit that and the Children's museum fairly often. Other than that, we've just spent our vacation enjoying the outdoors, each other, parks, water, and anything else we can think of doing. It's been a fun, although very rainy, first summer in Massachusetts.
