When we made our summer plans this year, we decided to change things up a bit. We usually go to Bodrum to see my family and chose to go to Istanbul instead and we usually go to Martha’s Vineyard to see Jake’s family, but we decided to spend longer and in Boston instead. So we booked a two-week trip at the end of the summer. We figured we can go to the Vineyard just the four of us for a few days and spend the rest of the days in their wonderful home in Boston.
This way I could go to work in the Cambridge office if needed and it was better overlap with Zurich timezone anyway (this was planned before everything moved to Sydney.)
Here’s what I learned form our two weeks there:
- The kids didn’t like the Vineyard nearly as much without all their cousins.
- But I loved being there just the four of us for a bit.
- I am still very allergic to the cat.
- It’s wonderful sitting in my mother in law’s backyard.
- Better than the Cambridge office.
- Though the office was really lovely to visit.
- The kids loved every single moment with their cousins and didn’t want to do anything besides running around the house and yard with them.
- Boston is really hot (and randomly rainy) in August.
- We all need to vary our diet more.
- Homegrown vegetables taste amazing.
- Two weeks is a long time to be away from home (especially when I’ve already traveled for four weeks before then.)
- This was a wonderful gift to our kids.
Stories from 2016 is a year-long project for 2016. You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
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