Around July 4th, Jon Erik and I took a long weekend trip to Boston. Great place to be for the fourth. We got in on Saturday. Sunday, we did the freedom trail walking tour. See photos and captions here. Monday we headed out to Cape May to hang out by the ocean.
The fourth had more cool things going on than we really had the time or energy to do. In the morning, we went to hear the annual reading of the Declaration of Independence from the balcony of the Old State House and then walked down to the harbor to watch the Constitution go on its annual cruise (photos here). In the afternoon I napped because we were out late listening to Jazz the night before. Then we headed to over to the Esplenade for the big July 4 Fireworks shin-dig. The Fireworks were awesome -- the best I've every seen. TONS of people there. We got there about 2 hrs before the symphony started and the concert area was already so full that they weren't letting any more people into that part of the park. So we just found a good place to watch the fireworks. If we had been any later, we'd have found trouble finding a spot -- and that was four hours before the fireworks! Joe Perry and Steve Tyler were there with the Boston Pops and Dr & Mrs Phil were the MCs. The Pops brass section doing the guitar riff for Walk this Way was especially entertaining.
Wednesday we headed back.
While we were in Boston, the kitties were vacationing at Elena's. A few interesting photos of them in one of their favorite hiding places here. When we got back to our place, Meeko decided to go on another adventure.
We were hanging out and unpacking when Jon Erik found the front door open. After we got ourselves and the cats home, he had gone to the gym and must have not shut the door the whole way when he came in. Electra was in the window, but Meeko was nowhere to be found. So we each took a stairway and worked our way down through the building. I found him under the back stairs on the ground floor, crouching in the corner. He must have gone exploring and got too scared to find his way back. He was totally freaked out. Silly kitty!
Of the two of them, I never thought Meeko would be the one to go exploring. Usually Electra is our little trailblazer.
I have found a way to keep Meeko out of the drawers under our bed. Two words: coat hangers. The aftermath of locking him out of the drawers hasn't been pretty. He took it out on on Electra pretty good for a few days.
Since then, we've just been hanging in the heat.
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In other news...
Meeko's evil twin turned up on stuff on my cat.
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Very striking stuff on cat - The eyes have it. Also enjoyed the Boston photos.
You did get to the beach after all? Good!
Very striking stuff on cat - The eyes have it. Also enjoyed the Boston photos.
You did get to the beach after all? Good!
Head On...
Seth Stevenson address a topic today in Slate over which I've been... uh... scratching my head for weeks.
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Boston and Other Adventures
So I haven't blogged for a while.
Around July 4th, Jon Erik and I took a long weekend trip to Boston. Great place to be for the fourth. We got in on Saturday. Sunday, we did the freedom trail walking tour. See photos and captions here. Monday we headed out to Cape May to hang out by the ocean.
The fourth had more cool things going on than we really had the time or energy to do. In the morning, we went to hear the annual reading of the Declaration of Independence from the balcony of the Old State House and then walked down to the harbor to watch the Constitution go on its annual cruise (photos here). In the afternoon I napped because we were out late listening to Jazz the night before. Then we headed to over to the Esplenade for the big July 4 Fireworks shin-dig. The Fireworks were awesome -- the best I've every seen. TONS of people there. We got there about 2 hrs before the symphony started and the concert area was already so full that they weren't letting any more people into that part of the park. So we just found a good place to watch the fireworks. If we had been any later, we'd have found trouble finding a spot -- and that was four hours before the fireworks! Joe Perry and Steve Tyler were there with the Boston Pops and Dr & Mrs Phil were the MCs. The Pops brass section doing the guitar riff for Walk this Way was especially entertaining.
Wednesday we headed back.
While we were in Boston, the kitties were vacationing at Elena's. A few interesting photos of them in one of their favorite hiding places here. When we got back to our place, Meeko decided to go on another adventure.
We were hanging out and unpacking when Jon Erik found the front door open. After we got ourselves and the cats home, he had gone to the gym and must have not shut the door the whole way when he came in. Electra was in the window, but Meeko was nowhere to be found. So we each took a stairway and worked our way down through the building. I found him under the back stairs on the ground floor, crouching in the corner. He must have gone exploring and got too scared to find his way back. He was totally freaked out. Silly kitty!
Of the two of them, I never thought Meeko would be the one to go exploring. Usually Electra is our little trailblazer.
I have found a way to keep Meeko out of the drawers under our bed. Two words: coat hangers. The aftermath of locking him out of the drawers hasn't been pretty. He took it out on on Electra pretty good for a few days.
Since then, we've just been hanging in the heat.
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