Rain and the Science Museum

Yesterday I swam up the freeway - we had that much rain. It was okay in the morning so I went out for a bike ride just before the rain started, then we had a day of tag teaming with the kids.

The rain started. Ellie and I did the Christmas Tree Shops - it turns out one visit IS enough.

Mike took all children to see Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - our second attempt since being thrown out of the film halfway through due to some unnamed 'emergency situation'.

Meanwhile I got soaked running from the carpark into the mall, where I spent far too much in Pottery Barn on things I'll probably return. We're really trying to get the downstairs of the house 'done' ie repainted, rugs, furniture, blinds, curtains - all that stuff we've done without for the last two years. The stairs are now blue on one side and sand on the other, the sitting room is sand with cream window frames, and soon the rest of the downstairs might be cream rather than lime green/navy blue. But I'm rubbish at making decisions so it's a slow painful process.

Then I got soaked running back to the car.

Then I did about 40mph all the way back up I-295, wondering at what point someone replaced it with a river.

Was very glad to get home, and couldn't face going back out again, which was a shame because we'd planned to go to the North Yarmouth Family Dance and get Hannah to show us how to do country dancing.

Today we drove 110 miles to Boston in about 1.5 hours, then sat in traffic directly outside the Science Museum gazing longingly at the closed carpark for another half an hour, then finally parked somewhere else and got in to the museum.

It's pretty good. Not as good as the Manchester Science Museum, but then it is amazing. The best bit was the Harry Potter exhibition. I expected costumes, but not sets and animals and all sorts of other pieces. It was fabulous and a bit too scary for Ellie.

We'll definitely go back to the museum, but we'll get up early and take the train next time. It's right by North Station and I'll do pretty much anything to avoid that traffic jam.

We stopped at Bertucci's for dinner on the way home. Mmmmm. Then there was a lot of snoring coming from the back seats.

Now Mike's watching the Patriots play and saying 'Go Pats' a lot. I'm not saying people are passionate about football here, but I just read an email from Hannah's teacher and she closed it with 'Go Pats!'