Boston Trip & Aerobatics

So Angela's sister Alicia has been asking us for a while to come visit her in Boston where she's on "temporary" assignment for work. This past weekend we finally went. The first day there we started out by simply being lazy (hey, it's vacation!) followed a little bit later by a tour of Fenway Park, and the we attended the game later that night. Unfortunately Boston lost, but it also happened to be the night the famous Citgo sign was relit for the first time since July! The large 3,600 square foot sign had all of it's lights replaced and just by luck we happened to be there the night they relit it.

On Saturday we headed North into New Hampshire and eventually made our way to an apple festival Angela had her eyes on. It was pretty neat, we got to pick our own apples, and they had some of the best ice cream I've ever tasted! Saturday afternoon we simply took the long way home and stopped at a bunch of places along the way taking it all in. Lots of pretty country up there.


Sunday was what I'd really been waiting for. We went whale watching before heading to the airport... All indications were we got very lucky with all the activity we saw! The whales were almost posing for us! We got some good pictures :-)



Monday I took a vaction day to attend the National Aerobatics competition up in Sherman Texas with some friends. I had never been and we used it as an excuse to be camera geeks for the day. Ever seen the the photographers around the end zones of an NFL game... yeah, it sorta looked like that, just most of us had less expensive equipment ;-) Unfortunately it turns out the planes were WAY higher than we had expected so even with some really nice zoom lenses, the picture taking wasn't all it could have been. We enjoyed walking around the planes though.

(I hope to get a picture or 2 up here in the next couple of days)

Anyway... these are my excuses for not running Friday & Sunday... and I'm stickin' to 'em!