Sunday, February 17, 2008

Christmas in New England: Part 4

Our final stop before Brian had to head back to Alaska (a few days before me) was Jeff and Laura's house in Boston. We did a lot of fun things...in addition to some great Cranium games.
















We went and visited Waldon Pond- where Henry Thoreau lived from July 1845 to September 1847. His experience at Walden provided the material for the book Walden. This is a place I've always wanted to go, but never had the opportunity. It was a snowy, but warm day, so we enjoyed the short walk around the pond.






Here's Brian meeting Thoreau...not a very tall man...




Waldon Pond turned out to not be very big at all...here's a photo of the pond in its entirity.







































We also stopped at a little park where lots of kids were sledding. Brian and Jeff decided to check out the slides. There was a heated race...












but Brian seemed to have too much friction to become grand champion.













Maybe next time.














Visiting with Jeff and Laura's cats- Bean and Brie is always fun too. They seemed to (more or less) accept the fact that Brian and I were staying at their house. Before too long there will be a little Bicklet around, so having houseguests around is probably good practice.













Can't wait to meet the new addition!!!






2 comments:

laura said...

good picture of bean! glad you finally got around to catching up your blog! :D

Jeffus said...

Hope, I like the sun-glasses you're wearing in the walden pond photos... Actually I think we found a pair just like them in our couch a couple days ago...