Babies Squared: Ellerman Family Vacation 2013: Best Day Ever, Part 2

Ahhh. Back home. Vacation is great, but so is climbing into your own bed. Especially when you have no real tasks to accomplish the next day. Except those 4 loads of laundry, putting all the travel things away and that huge list of to-do items you saved for summer. But none of those have a start time, and none require me to get up at 5:00am, so I like I said....Ahhh....

Now, remember, I was telling you about this great day we had. This was day 4, and we spent the morning at the Children's Museum. And we snacked. You with me? Ok. So then, all fueled on cookies and treats we walked a little over a mile to our trolley stop. And hey, look what we saw again. "that place where the people got killed". Ie. the State House where the Boston Massacre happened. We have two sharp little minds with us. Right where the person with the black sweater is walking is the site of the massacre.

And we walked on a little more and found our trolley stop. The plan was to ride the trolley to get our tickets for another tour happening later. We waited, never saw a trolley and decided we could walk to another stop that we knew was the homebase for the trolleys. Which we found and got comfy in right away. We had a long ride ahead of us.

Some of us got more comfortable than others.

Our plan was to ride the trolley to Fenway Park, which should have taken maybe 30 minutes or so. And it would have without the First Lady's visit to Boston. Her visit gave us a little extra time on the trolley and in turn extra time for me to adore my family through the lens because the trolley really wasnt moving. Good thing we had a lot of snacks. Bananas, goldfish, if it was in the backpack, we ate it.

Here are my views while we waited for traffic to move.

And finally we made it to our destination, Fenway. We were to tour the ballpark. K and I had done this tour before several years ago, but we were excited to see how much interested our little t-ballers would show.

This tour was a fast moving one, no time to stop and smile at the camera.

It was apparently too much to ask a certain someone to look at the camera. But at least my hair looks good.

This tour was non-stop walking and some of the topics were a little abstract to the boys. I was nervous about their stamina, but they did really well.

Judging from this picture they might have been pretending to be ninjas in their minds the entire time. So while were hearing "...and Fenway was built...", they might have been hearing "be on alert for ninja attacks at all times"...

Not sure if this family pic is better or not.

So here we get to the press suite. It sounds all exciting, but its just a row of benches and chairs with a great view. And this dude had no idea what this was all about. I tried to explain what it was used for, and he thought for a minute. And looked out, and admired the view. And then turned to me and said, "so where's the computer in this place?".

Next stop after the computer-less press suite was atop the Green Monster.

At this point I was almost a little over the tour, and I was hungry, and I was thinking that they were hungry too. I estimated another 10 minutes till the tour ended, which can seem like an eternity to a hungry little one. Or their parents. Time to bust out the secret weapon. Worked like a charm.

After a long day of tours and walking and seeing new things we all needed a bit of calm and comfort. and food, we needed a good warm meal where we could color.

And be mesmerized.

At what, you ask? These. He was so happy watching sports.

You might think our day was done, but nooooo, we had more! Our lunch ran a little longer than anticipated, so we made a mad dash, Amazing Race style, to the next tour. I kid you not that we sprinted into and out of the subway stations. The boys thought it was hilarious.