6 Kids, 3 cats, 1 dog, Mom, and Dad

Great weekend or Life in the fast lane.

We had absolutely beautiful weather this weekend and it was a three day weekend to boot!

On Saturday me, Middle Daughter, and Beautiful Wife ate breakfast, picked up my mom at her home, and drove up to Ogunquit Beach in Maine. We ate lunch at Barnacle Billy's and it was excellent.

After lunch we walked on the Marginal Way and enjoyed the beautiful scenery and great weather. MD and I walked down to the water and one point and it was refreshing rather than bone-chilling like it can be earlier in the year.

We made our way back to home, enjoyed watching the Survivor:All Stars series that I got from Netflix, and then headed out to the Olive Garden for dinner. Oldest Daughter joined us at that point because we are able to get 25% off the meal when she eats with us since she's an employee.

BW's Younger Sister joined us for a drive down to Boston on Sunday. We started at Faneuil Hall where we all went to a different vendor and then enjoyed eating at a stand-up table in the common area of the all.

We finished that in time to walk over to the New England Aquarium IMAX theater to see Sharks 3D. If you watch the Discovery Channel and are a Shark's Week fan from way back, save your money unless you want to take a nap in an air conditioned theater. While the visuals and sound are impressive, you can only watch sardines changing directions in unison only so many times before you start to doze.

The sharks? BORING! You'll end up thinking that the toothy loves are only there to clean up the really sick and evolution challenged fishies and we humans are safe since 'we taste awful to them!'

We took our time walking over toward the theater district with stops at
assorted stores including Filene's Basement, a place that none of the ladies had been in before and that you have to see in order to believe.

I saw a display of Versace ties but still had to pass on actually purchasing one. They were originally $125.00 and were marked way down to $69.95...still too rich for my blood.

We ate dinner at Legal Seafoods. I received a tour of their extensive wine cellar and we all enjoyed a great dinner. We seem to eat a lot...

After dinner we walked through the nicer parts of the city until we got back to the parking garage and headed home.

Monday was spent doing some work around the house and then fun later on in the day. The kitty litter room was awful. The automatic litter boxes needed to be cleaned and something done with the floor because they have a tendency to 'miss' or toss things out when they do their covering and scratching.

I ended up doing it because it was a nasty job and it needed to be done right. I used hot water, bleach, and an old mop to clean the cement floor after sweeping and then using the vacuum to get up all the grit and dust.

After I finished that job we went to the out-laws to have some dinner and then went downtown to enjoy the fireworks. The kids go to see and be seen and the adults get to catch up with people the only see at class reunions or at the soccer field. GEO joined me in line while I waited to purchase some fresh, hot, home-made french fries and passed the time talking about our lives.

Except for the kitty litter job, it was an awesome weekend.

Posted by bbarton at July 5, 2005 06:24 PM