We took the train to Newburyport to celebrate our 6th anniversary. We are using a graduation gift from Shannon and Thadd to stay at the Essex Street Inn. The train goes right from Boston to Newburyport – it is awesome we walked a bike path to get to the waterfront from the station. It didn’t take long at all! The inn is right downtown and super cute. We got dinner at Rockfish, drinks at The Port Tavern and ice cream at Gram’s Homemade Ice Cream Shop.
Jeannette headed back west to her parents for quick weekend visit to assure herself that all was well on the western front. It was a great visit with getting to see family and a new puppy, catching up on some family business and also taking some time to hit the shooting range.
A plan was hatched between dear old friends whose circumstances has placed them on opposite sides of the country. The plan was to reunite them for a fun weekend in great city. New Orleans.
It took us 2 days, 5 airports, a rental car, and 3 bus systems to get home after Christmas.
One surprise was a lovely hotel connected to the Hartford airport, that let us use their business center and print for free without being guests. Without them, we wouldn’t have been able to use the bus tickets we had bought and would have had to buy new ones at the station, for a much later bus! Thank you Sheraton, you rock our world!
Josh printing our tickets!
We missed photographing some of the fun memories of making cookies and putting together puzzles with Grandpa (we were too busy making cookies and putting together puzzles) but here are some of our pictures. You can check out more photos of the fun on Thadd’s blog, or on Shannon and John’s, or on Mr. Allen’s.
