Boston, Part 1

We're just returned from a wonderful week in Boston, where we reconnected with friends from our days living there and with my family at the annual GOB*Fest (*Gathering of Bogers), which we were attending for the first time. It was good to catch up with everyone after the blur of of baby/toddler years when we traveled little, and the Rocky Mountain interlude, when we couldn't easily get back east. It made us feel reconnected...while also prompting us to talk intently about what we might look for in a house or neighborhood if and when we (like our friends and relatives) ever become real grownups. Will post pictures bit by bit.

Stop #1, Yale, for lunch at Atticus and a quick swing in the JE courtyard.

Although five years ago at reunions Edith pledged her loyalty to Cornell, she had a change of heart after seeing Jonathan Edwards College and Old Campus. She thought the "castles" were beautiful and began to muse on attending Yale and Cornell simultaneously, commuting by plane.

Incidentally, Harry Potter has made it so much easier to explain the residential college system. It was intuitive to Edith and Alice...except for the fact that the location of all colleges' common rooms was public knowledge.

In Boston, we stayed first with one of my roommates from those residential college days, Lina, and her family. Edith and Alice got along beautifully with Elan (7) and Ariel (5), whether blueberry picking, finding their way through a hedge maze, or stealing downstairs before dawn to watch cartoons together.