4th of July in BOSTON!

July 3rd- We went to the Green Dragon Tavern which was where Sam Adams and others organized to begin conversations about the Declaration of Independence. This pic was taken at the end of the day and it was cool to see two guys dressed as American and British soldiers having beers together today.

Char in front of the Green Dragon... best oysters ever!

That night we had dinner at the Union Oyster House... so freakin tasty, I had Scod (new england whitefish) for the first time...

In the square across the street was a really awesome Holocaust Memorial, what looks like white lines on the glass is really hundreds of prisoners numbers from the Holocaust.

Then we ran into Ben Franklin himself...

We also got to visit the Paul Revere House...

Char's parents, Chuck and Karen with a woman who explained the wardrobe of the time to us...

One of the lanterns that Paul Revere used to let us know that the "British were coming!"

One of the many reenactments we saw that weekend...

We also stopped by the grave sights of many of the key players in our country's independence...


And we even caught a few parades...

Here's a shout out to all my library friends (Amy, Tracy, and Janet!), this is the courtyard in the middle of the Boston Library, gorgeous...


July 4th- We were lucky enough to see a reenactment of the first ever reading of the Decleration of Independence in the same place where it happened oh so long ago...


Then we headed over to Cambridge where we visited Harvard University...


Then finally to our ultimate destination, the James Taylor & Carole King concert at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA (James Taylor's home town)! There were soooo many people there...


You can kinda see James there behind the leaves strummin away...


And you can sort of make out Carole King on the screen (but seriously, check out those clouds!)...

Chuck and Karen at the concert near our picnic site...

Char and I at the site...


And I leave you with a pic of the sunset (I couldn't get enough of the view at this venue, it was soo gorgeous and worth every minute of the 15hr. drive!)...

After Boston we headed back to Asheville for two weeks and had our friends Josh and Jess join us for a weekend and then Char's mom came to check out the new digs. It's been a crazy fun summer and I still have so much to share! I'll update soon with pics and stories from our Charleston, SC trip this past weekend, which was also super fun. Thanks for checkin in on us as we travel around the east coast!

So it's been forever since I've posted anything so I figured I'd do a quick recap of the last few weeks...

1) right after moving we drove back up to DC and played in our last softball game of the season, check out the awesome Batitudes!

During that week I also joined my friend Amy and her family to see Janet Evanovich in person at a book signing in DC!

Last but not least I got to celebrate my birthday with my Mom and sister over some cake and while playing some dominoes!

2) Then we stopped by Williamsburg to hang out with the grandparents and swung by Newport News to have dinner with our friends Josh and Jess Saturday and then we got to have dinner with our friend Beth who was visiting from London Sunday night. We jumped on the road that night and got back to Asheville that night.

3) The next day was our second wedding anniversary and we celebrated by adding another member to our family, we adopted our new puppy, Riley!!! He's a mix of blue heeler and something else... maybe some kind of spaniel? Either way he's precious and super sweet!
Napping on the way home...

Playing outside...

Char and Riley (who's smile is bigger?) ...

Being a good boy and posing for just a few more pictures...

He's such a fun puppy and he's growing like a weed... in these pics he was only 8 lbs and we took him in for a check up yesterday and he was already 12 lbs. He's doing great and is such a happy pup!

After all these fun times we drove up to Boston... check out the next post for more details :)