Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone is having a good holiday. We have enjoyed spending time with some of Camberly's family. We made the traditional M&M turkeys, ate a delicious meal with some new recipes, and played some games. It was a fun day.

Quiltaway

Last week Camberly went to her first quilt retreat. It was just here in town and she didn't stay overnight but she spent a couple long days in a hotel ballroom with 60 other women sewing away. She went with six other ladies from work who have been going for years. They all did the mystery quilt. She got the fabric and cut it as specified before arriving and then got one step at a time to put it all together. So until the very end you couldn't tell what the quilt would end up looking like. The challenge is picking out the fabric without knowing what the quilt is. But happily it turned out nicely. It was a fun experience.

10 years

Happy Halloween!

Each year at Caleb's work they have a day to dress up in Halloween costumes. Last year he was a cow, this year a chicken. So people at work wondered if he has a whole lot of farm animal costumes. So since Caleb is always an animal, the dogs decided to dress as people.


Sadie was not particularly fond of the hair bow. She kept rubbing along the couch and floor to try to get it out. Sylvester kept walking on the tie. They could never be dogs that regularly wear clothes.

Caleb's Saturday

So apparently an explanation is in order. No this is not Caleb dressed up riding a crazy tractor. He just took the picture at a pumpkin patch. The place had a big slide, punkin chunkin catapult, dried corn pit, donuts with cider, a train, and the tractor that blew bubbles out the front and fire out the top.

Boston--Day one

Our first day in Boston we spent the morning taking a boat ride out to the oldest still working lighthouse in the country. It is out on one of the tiny harbor islands.  It was quite a narrow climb up to the top with an amazing view. In the afternoon we drove down to Plymouth and saw the  Mayflower 2 and Plymouth Rock. We were surprised at how small the rock was. For dinner we went to Isaac's restaurant and then hunting for crabs on the shore.

     

Boston--Day Two

Saturday we headed into town. We drove to the the subway parking area and took the subway in. We started in Boston Common where we went on a guided tour of the first half of the Freedom Trail. Our guide was dressed in Revolutionary clothing and spoke in character as someone who lived then. He showed us many different places and told a lot of stories. After the tour we went through the farmers market and then headed over to Quincy market.

At the market there was a huge variety of food options and then there was some entertainment out front. We saw a couple of jugglers, a funny guy who did some balancing acts, and then a group of hip hop dancers. Next we continued on to finish the Freedom Trail. We saw the Old North Church and then headed across the river to see the USS Constitution.

We took the ferry back to where we started and headed up to the North End to get Italian food for dinner. Everywhere had at least an hour wait and so while we were walking around we happened upon Mike's Pastry (who we had heard rave reviews from many people). So we made it through the mob and got some canollis  to eat after dinner.