What more could one ask for than to spend 3 days with your kids in New England with sunny skies and mid-70 temps all weekend? On Friday, we headed to Maine to walk beautiful Marginal Way–a 3-mile trail along the rugged coastline–in Olgonquit. We had seafood in York and returned home tired and sunburnt. On Saturday, we made and flew kites along the Chelsea River, attended an Italian Festival in East Boston (where Steve and Chrissy live), and walked around downtown Boston before eating another great meal together.
On Sunday, Mitch had to go to his job as copy editor at Boston Now daily newspaper, but Steve and Chrissy met us for worship at Trinity Church, established in the late 1700s. I can’t say that the service was particularly moving, but it was interesting, filled with all the pomp and pagentry of “high church.” Afterwards, we enjoyed a coffee fellowship in the old building’s new fellowship hall where we met a nice lady who has been a member at Trinity all her life. She was actually born in Boston and has lived there since except for two years she spent in Dallas. I personally found her to be the highlight of the morning, taking a chance to meet some visitors. After church, we walked down to the Charles River for sandwiches on the Esplanade and a long walk over to Cambridge before meeting up with Mitch when he got off work. From there, we headed back to East Boston and another walk through the Italian Festival where we enjoyed great pizza and honest-to-goodness canolis. We capped the evening off with a concert in the park featuring my favorite music, bluegrass (in Boston, of all places!).
The weekend was refreshing and blessed by God. He has blessed us with good kids who have grown into great citizens. (By the way, daughter-in-law, Chrissy began a new job last Monday as CFO for a non-profit agency called Generations.)
Photos: (Top) Chrissy, Mitch, Steve Jr., Lynn at our favorite New England site, Dunkin’ Donuts. (Next) Two Steves at M.I.T. This is as close as they would let us get to the school…something to the effect of ”inferior minds” corrupting its image. Check out Steve Jr’s additional photos from our visit at
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Nancy said
Sounds like you had a great time with family and fun things to do together. The snapshots were very nice, too. Colin , my youngest son, and his wife and new baby are considering moving back to Memphis in December. Hopefully, we can have some great times, too, being back together after being apart for several years.