Day Trips

When I was a kid my parents often took us on day trips and weekend trips, particularly in summer. I want to do the same thing for Sebastian, of course. So I'm trying to come up with lists of trips to take and fun things to do in the New England area - near and far.

Any suggestions would be very welcome!

Day Trips

• Edaville Railroad, Carver MA
  
• Wausahkum Live Steamers, Holliston MA - http://www.steamingpriest.com/wls/index.htm
  
• Children's Museum, Boston MA
  
• The Museum of Science, Cambridge MA
  
• Boston Public Gardens, Boston MA
  
• The Maparium at the Christian Science cathedral, Boston MA
  
• Marblehead, MA
  
• Cape Cod, MA
  
• Provincetown, MA
  
• Pound Ridge
  
• Purgatory Chasm
  
• Kent Falls State Park, Kent CT
  

Weekend Trips

• White Mountains (Cog Railway, the Flume, etc.), NH
  
• Boothbay Harbor, ME
  
• Old Orchard Beach amusement park
  
• Perkins Cove/Marginal Way
  
• Rockport/beach
  
• Westport, CT - Nature Center, Stew Leonards, Devil's Den, my old house, Stamford Zoo
  
• Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving estate), Tarrytown, NY
  
• Mohonk, New Paltz NY (prohibitively expensive)
  

Day Trips

When I was a kid my parents often took us on day trips and weekend trips, particularly in summer. I want to do the same thing for Sebastian, of course. So I'm trying to come up with lists of trips to take and fun things to do in the New England area - near and far.

Any suggestions would be very welcome!

Day Trips

• Edaville Railroad, Carver MA
  
• Wausahkum Live Steamers, Holliston MA - http://www.steamingpriest.com/wls/index.htm
  
• Children's Museum, Boston MA
  
• The Museum of Science, Cambridge MA
  
• Boston Public Gardens, Boston MA
  
• The Maparium at the Christian Science cathedral, Boston MA
  
• Marblehead, MA
  
• Cape Cod, MA
  
• Provincetown, MA
  
• Pound Ridge
  
• Purgatory Chasm
  
• Kent Falls State Park, Kent CT
  

Weekend Trips

• White Mountains (Cog Railway, the Flume, etc.), NH
  
• Boothbay Harbor, ME
  
• Old Orchard Beach amusement park
  
• Perkins Cove/Marginal Way
  
• Rockport/beach
  
• Westport, CT - Nature Center, Stew Leonards, Devil's Den, my old house, Stamford Zoo
  
• Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving estate), Tarrytown, NY
  
• Mohonk, New Paltz NY (prohibitively expensive)
  

Catch-up: Weekend of Firsts, Part 1

I did a long voice post about this because I suspected that it would be hard to get it written up. And I was right.

I took some decent pictures of part of the weekend, but it's just too much work to sort through them all and stick them up on the server right now. Perhaps I'll do that later.

Teri was at the shelter on Saturday, so I took Sebastian to the annual Children's Spring Festival at Dean College in Franklin MA. We'd gone there the year before and had a lot of fun. This year was no different; we walked around, Sebastian spent a lot of time in a couple of those inflated moon-walk jumping things, and I repeatedly tried to get him to take a pony ride. But no matter how much I cajoled him, he simply refused to get on, or even near, a pony. Even though some of them were quite small.

He did get excited when he saw a display of small animals, though.

(I resist lj-cuts, because I believe that people often don't bother to read the whole post - and goodness knows few enough people read this thing anyway - but here's an lj-cut nonetheless.)

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But this has already become much longer than I expected, so I'll continue it later, in part 2.

Catch-up: Weekend of Firsts, Part 1

I did a long voice post about this because I suspected that it would be hard to get it written up. And I was right.

I took some decent pictures of part of the weekend, but it's just too much work to sort through them all and stick them up on the server right now. Perhaps I'll do that later.

Teri was at the shelter on Saturday, so I took Sebastian to the annual Children's Spring Festival at Dean College in Franklin MA. We'd gone there the year before and had a lot of fun. This year was no different; we walked around, Sebastian spent a lot of time in a couple of those inflated moon-walk jumping things, and I repeatedly tried to get him to take a pony ride. But no matter how much I cajoled him, he simply refused to get on, or even near, a pony. Even though some of them were quite small.

He did get excited when he saw a display of small animals, though.

(I resist lj-cuts, because I believe that people often don't bother to read the whole post - and goodness knows few enough people read this thing anyway - but here's an lj-cut nonetheless.)

( Read more... )

But this has already become much longer than I expected, so I'll continue it later, in part 2.