i am a tourist

Meg (Dave's little sis) came to visit us last week and it was so fun to have her here. We drove to New Hampshire on Sunday and met up with friends from the office at Hampton Beach.

This picture pretty much sums it up....The girls standing around gabbing, while the boys are in the ocean playing with the football.

On Monday, or was it Tuesday? hmmm all my days are all mixed together out here. Anyway, another day we took the subway downtown where we wandered around the Boston Commons, the Public Gardens & of course made our way to all the shops on Newbury Street.  I think we spent the majority of our time in Marc Jacobs trying to decide which rain boots and umbrella to buy.  Don't worry, even the sales assistant started making fun of us for using the word "cute" WAY too may times. Well, they were CUTE what else does he want me to say!!!!

These are the ones I ended up buying. See. Cute. I know.

Later on in the week, we drove to Newport,  RI.  Of course it rained the ENTIRE day. At least we got good use out of the umbrellas. The town runs along the coast and is famous for the many "summer cottages".

And when I say cottage, this is what I mean....

We found a small little trail that lead to a lighthouse & I think I may have been more intrigued by these chairs randomly placed throughout the area.

 Castle Hill Lighthouse. And again, I was obsessed with these chairs.

 

The next Sunday we drove to Cape Cod and took the ferry over to Nantucket. In my opinion, Nantucket is a MUST! This was my second time on the island and it was just as great as I remembered.

And the Nantucket trip wouldn't have been complete without walking to the lighthouse on Brant Point.

Rockport

If you ever go to Boston, you for sure need to make the 45 minute drive to Rockport. Its the cutest little beach town just north of Boston. (I sound like a travel agent.) But first, Dave & I started our day with a BBQ with all the peeps from his office. Below is a picture of the pond in the park.  It reminds of a scene from The Notebook.

Then we drove to Rockport.  I did a little research on the world wide web and found out that several movies were filmed there, including Grown Ups & one of my favorites--The Proposal! Does this look like A-laskaa?  Well it's not,  it's good ol Rockport, Mass. Before filming, they put up fake pine trees to make it look like Alaska.

This dock with the red barn is in the movie a few times.

Remember the scene where "Margaret & Andrew" go into town to get her new phone and she needs to use the internet? They walk into the store & she puts the nickel into the machine and hears the old school internet dial tone. The computer was sitting in this corner where I am sitting. 

After strolling the streets we stopped and got some ice cream. We shared, but I ate 95% of it. What can I say, I like ice cream.

This kid (I mean my husband) works sooooo ridiculously hard. I am amazed by him every single day. I am so happy that Independence Day was on a Sunday this year so that he could have the day off and we could be together for the holiday.