my friend jen emailed me saying that she and her boyfriend, paul, wanted to come to boston and hang out for a weekend. 'sure' i said, 'let's do it. we'll plan a weekend and if others want to come that's fine, but since we can never seem to get together let's just plan something together since you asked...'
we picked a few weekends that worked... and somehow all of the planets aligned... and EVERYONE was able to come for the visit [ultimately more than a bit hectic considering we ended up moving about 3 weeks beforehand, however we couldn't have known that at the time].
so this weekend, dan and i had 11 of my closest friends visiting, helping to break in our new home, laughing, drinking, eating, joking, playing games and swimming with us! :)
courtney, jen, paul, meg and nick
eric and lorella
justin & amber
jessica & joel
the crowd trickled in. we got pizza delivered (apparently Victoria's has a meat-lover's pizza to write home about), played this board game justin & amber brought {thanks!) called Would You Rather?! which was soo ridiculous and funny i'd read a card that would ask the players something ridiculous like "Would You Rather...have to use a giant cat litter box as a bathroom or only be able to pee outside." Crazy, far fetched {often disgusting} things that made me laugh so hard I would read one half of the question to myself and lose it.. and then everyone else would take bets on how long it would actually take me to read it aloud!
saturday
we woke up and had a big breakfast while the parade of showers started. i think that took us more than 2 hours but we finally got out of the house and headed into boston. we started the day in Quincy Market where Jen, Paul, Amber, Justin, Meg, Nick, Jessica, Joel and myself met up with Lorella, Eric and Courtney. us girls started walking around, jessica on a mission to hit up her favorite store- Crate & Barrel- and it took a few minutes and a cell phone call from Nick for us to realize that the boys were no longer with us, but getting a pint at Hennessy's! Joel's a good tour guide :)
we met them there then moved onto The Green Dragon for lunch (where i took the few pictures i have of the weekend). and then it was on to the aquarium to ooooh and ahhhh over the giant sea turtles, sting rays and cool species of fish. {nice to be inside when it was about 100 degrees out!}
for dinner we headed to the Border Cafe in Harvard Square--- stopping only briefly when Joel ran gracefully across the street and injured something in his calf. not good. not good at all. he limped to the car and drove to Harvard Square while the rest of us schlepped over on the train. Border Cafe did not fail to impress the out-of-towners and the Margaritas were better than ever, if that's even possible!
sunday
it was more difficult to mobilize on sunday morning after walking 6+ miles in the heat on saturday but we finally got up and out and into the pool at mom's by around noon, sans meg, nick and courtney who had to head home.
we had a blast at the pool, joking around, teasing poor lorella who despite any comments {verbal or written in yearbooks} does not smell ;) joel gave my mom another lovely hostess gift (aka pot holder, this time from Border Cafe not Chili's)... dan cooked on the grill and we had some drinks... another great day of hanging out and just spending time together. by late afternoon everyone had left except Jessica, Joel, Jen and Paul. Krissy brought Willy over to say hello and we had a late dinner, with Matt and my Dad joining us after their patio building adventures at the Litchfield house.
jen and paul stayed the night with dan and i so we got to enjoy some last minute quality time with the originators of this special weekend. thanks so much for suggesting it! guess it was meant to be....
the scary part--- we realized that we've known eachother for 10 years (come August). we're getting old. there's no denying it! how great that we're still good enough friends to make the effort to do something like this. i love you guys. thanks for coming to visit!
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