Thursday we drove to north to Providence for a tour of Brown University. Jane, Rose and I took the tour while Mark and the boys explored Providence. I think Jane decided that Brown was her favorite of the three schools we toured in the east. It is another beautiful school and campus with amazing history.
Friday and it's PERFECT weather brought us back to the beach. It is crazy how many people can fit on one beach! It was crowded, but the waves were great. The kids boogie boarded for ever. Thomas was the first to come out and as he was picking seaweed out of his swimsuit, realized that there were bugs in the seaweed and therefore bugs all over him, including in the swimsuit! Ted, Jane and Rose followed out of the water not long after him and were horrified to find the same issue! Needless to say, no one went back in the water! But Ted made a great sand "chair" and the rest of us relaxed in the sun.
I had the last of three lobster rolls and George's of Galilee on the water, delicious....., but forgot to get a picture of the last one.
Today we packed our bags and left our house in Narragansett to head back to Boston for the night.
Our van for the week
We stopped at JFK's birthplace in Brookline, MA. The home is a National Historic Site. Jane, Ted and I went in to check it out and found that there were guided tours, but knew that everyone else didn't really have it in them to do another tour, so the three of us just took in what we could. It was pretty cool to see and imagine Rose and Joe and all of those kids living in that house along with their housemaids. The Kennedy's sold the house in 1920, but Rose re-purchased the house in 1966, so she could have the home restored to her recollection of it's 1917 appearance when Jack was born. She donated the home in 1967 to the National Park System.
Mark and I got the kids settled at the hotel and left to return the rental car. We decided to make pit stop in downtown Boston, as we hadn't really hit the Beacon Hill area. We saw the location of the Boston Marathon bombing which was quite surreal.
One last night in Boston. We will be turning in early as our flight back to Minneapolis leaves at 6:55 a.m.!
It was another fantastic vacation. As I always like to mention, this is a group of fantastic travelers. They go with the flow and are open to trying new things, like uber and mass transit. We don't know what our future travel plans will bring as we have a girl that turns eighteen next year and will be going who knows where to college and may not have the time for us next summer. I hope that we can continue to travel together as a family for many years to come, as it is some of my favorite time.
Thank you for everything.....Mark, Jane, Rose, Tom and Ted, you are all the best!
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