Saturday in Boston

John and I went to Boston yesterday and saw the Blue Man group. It's a show that has a lot of audience participation. Before we went John was expressing concern about getting singled out (he tends to get singled out for thigns like this, I don't know why) - and sure enough, he got picked. He had to throw pieces of chocolate at one of the Blue Man guys who was standing about 10 feet away and catching the chocolate in his mouth. And it was all broadcast onto a big screen at the front. I think they're just really good at picking people who really don't want to be picked.

The weather was okay in Boston, a bit muggy but not too bad. But once we got on the highway, and were just past Newburyport, the sky turned that scary greenish colour and got really dark and ominous. And before we really realised what happened, it starting raining and hailing. It turned into a complete white-out and all the cars were pulled over to the side of the road. It brought traffic on the I-95 to a complete standstill - well except for a few crazy people that kept driving anyway. There were bits of debris and leaves flying everywhere, it was very strange and unexpected.

John's coming home - 50th blog post!

Okay, it's for real this time. He's got a plane ticket and everything. I don't believe him anymore when he says he's coming home unless he has flights booked. This two week job has turned out to be nearly a month and a half! Although I really can't complain because he did fly me out to California for a week. But I think that my formula has worked once again: take whatever time estimate he gives me at the start of the trip, multiply by two, and add two weeks.

Anyhow, his flight arrives at 8am in Boston tomorrow morning. I'm seriously considering bringing a giant cup of coffee and trying to convince him that despite taking the red-eye flight from Seattle, he still has enough energy to go hang out in Boston. Surely there will be lots of fun stuff going on, what with it being memorial day weekend and all. Of course maybe the city will be totally empty, since people will all be heading up north to hang out in new hampster and maine. We'll see...

Boston trip

John and I went down to Boston yesterday. It's the first day in a really really long time that I did no schoolwork at all. It felt so good. We were planning on seeing whole bunch of things like the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Science Museum. But we only went to the MFA and spent the rest of the time wandering around. Here's what it looked like when we left:

In Boston it was more like this one:

This photo was taken outside the Museum of Fine Arts. We spent more than 3 hours in there, and we didn't even see everything.