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Terror in Boston

April 16, 2013 By admin Leave a Comment

Wow- I can’t believe what happened so close to home yesterday. I can’t believe it happened at the Boston Marathon.

I don’t understand people. I am confused and shocked. I know several people who were there in the finish zone yesterday.

I feel so deeply sorrowful for those who are suffering.

I didn’t grow up in Boston, but it feels like our home now. After 11 years, we feel like part of the community of New Englanders who use Boston as their base.

I always feel safe there. I am not sure why I wouldn’t. This happened in the high end district.

But I want to find hope in the despair today.

Amidst the terror there are always stories of amazing people helping one another in the disaster zone.
Here is one story-
Andruzzi is a true PATRIOT on the field and off!
New England Patriots lineman Joe Andruzzi came to the aid of a person after the Boston Marathon blasts. We love Andruzzi!
Focusing on the positive today!

We love Boston! It won’t change anything for us. We wil love it even more now!

Filed Under: Angela, Boston Tagged With: Andruzzi, Boston Marathon Bombing, Terror in Boston

Boston Pops, Doors and more Doors

July 16, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

I am so far behind on this blog, I don’t know where to even start. Hey, it is summer, I don’t want to be stuck on a keyboard when I can be having fun.

I looked at the calendar and realize that in a 5 weeks all of that fun will be ending and I will be back to some type of routine again and probably blogging better- hang tight.

Here are a couple of shots at the Boston Pops and Fireworks on the 4th of July. They didn’t go quite the way we planned. In 11 years, we have been down 4 times to the event. We skipped the last six years until the kids could get passed the wiggles and the toddling. There is nothing worse than having to use a green, portable bathroom outside with a three year old.

We hit dinner before hand at the Prudential Center at California Pizza Kitchen. Yuck, but the kids liked the Pizza.

It was a wild 4th of July as 500,000 of our closet friends & concertgoers…many with one to many bottles of wine consumed…. were told to evacuate during a wicked lightning storm at the Boston Pops on the Charles River ..total chaos.

What you saw on TV an hour into it was the rehearsal footage, not reality. It poured rained and we resigned to watching the fireworks from our hotel hallway window with Romney Boston staffers, who were also staying there. We cranked up the pops music on television and it was still awesome despite the last minute changes in the weather! Lizzy was asleep within 5 minutes so at least Brian didn’t have to carry her back from the river like in years past.

It was definitely a bummer that the Pops was delayed, although we did have 1 hour with the cast of Mama Mia singing. You have to wait for hours after you stake a spot. We made the best of it playing and talking.

The turn of events, left Jennifer Hudson and the Cast of Mama Mia singing in the rain and the rest of us scrambling.

We woke up to this- where was it the night before? The calm after the storm…..

I just recently blogged about my Freedom Trail walk, I talked about all of the doors that Boston has.

Behold doors!

Everywhere you turn there is something really amazing welcoming you in in Boston

And here is the neighborhood where we are moving close to Beacon …ha ha I wish.

I just love how Boston gives you this right around the corner.

I was in NYC a couple of days ago and found myself missing Boston and singing everyones favorite here….”Shipping off to Boston….OHHHHHHHH”

It was a great family night together…rain or no rain! We loved it.

Filed Under: 4th of July, Boston, Family Home Evening

Freedom Trail- Streets of Boston

July 9, 2012 By admin 3 Comments

When we were in Boston for the 4th of July, Brian and I woke up the next morning while the kids were still slumbering and hit the streets of the revolution and walked the Freedom Trail. Who said 45 minutes away from your house isn’t totally exciting? I am still excited after 11 years!

With only iPhone in hand, I managed to be enthralled by the breathtaking architecture that only Beantown holds.

In the morning, when it is silent and the city is barely awake, you will find Chinese exercising on the Boston Common, you will hear calmness on the street and you will view beauty in the concrete jungle.

Let’s take a visual tour today!

I took a little break from shooting doors this year but the past two weeks I am back on. I am doing a separate door post this week just to highlight them. I Love them!

Nothing was more thrilling than being right where our country started and freedom was fought. I pondered for a moment if anyone even seemed to care as we all shuffled around the city that morning?

When we got to our hotel room the day prior for the Boston Pops and Fireworks, Hillary flipped on the television and episode 6 of John Adams was playing. We both freaked out and took an hour just to watch it. We, including Brian all recommitted to rewatching that entire series, since it was one of my favorite all time books.

I decided that I am having my next date with Brian at this restaurant at the Old City Hall, sure it is a steak house but Brian said it is to die for. And surely we will die clogging our arteries, but I loved the outdoor summer setting right on the trail.

Later that afternoon, I shot this amazing shot, if I do say so myself…. from my sunroof as Brian was driving home 50 miles an hour over the bridge.

Does this ring freedom or what?

We walked down Newbury Street, where shopping is at it’s finest. I said for the bazillionth time I wish we owned a house on the neighboring Beacon street. We are only about 8 million dollars shy of purchase.

We stopped for a moment at the State Capitol and took a moment to catch our breath literally.

We looked at churches and ate a smoothie for breakfast.

Best of all, we checked off another 20th Year anniversary goal and it only including walking and our two feet….something we have been faithfully doing for as long as we have known each other. It is therapy, it is reality, it is the best hour of my day every time we do it. And we didn’t even have to go far! Perfect morning- perfect date!