Day #14 – Devon, Northwestern & movie night
Day #14 starts the nostalgic part of our trip. Visiting places that we used to frequent, eating at our favorite places and meeting people we have missed. It was kids’ first trip back to Chicago since June 2016. First stop – Wildberry with 2 of the most wonderful 21 year olds (my friend’s parents). For…
Day #12 & #13 – Bye Beantown. Hello Chitown.
After DC & NY I was pretty sure kids would want to take it slow on our “travel day”. So we did what we like to do best on Day #12 – relax and sleep in. We strolled into the Boston South station completely relaxed and ready for a 18-ish hr train ride. We fet…
Day #11 – Harvard, MIT, Fenway Park, Harbor Cruise
Today was the day of dreams – visiting Harvard & MIT and getting an inside view of Fenway Park (the home of Boston Redsox). A short 10-mins bus ride from our hotel, took us to Harvard. As part of our plan we had thought of visiting the Anthropology Departments at every University for kid#1. So…
Day #10 – Boston Commons, North end, Seaport & best Italian desserts (in US)
Boston or Beantown is all about “firsts” and “oldest”. But after having visited NY and DC, lived in Chicago, I feel like Shania Twain in “That don’t impress me much”. Ha ha…. My favorite part about Boston – food, Fenway, Cambridge and the Bostonian accent. Riva (river), Harba (harbor) and so on. Our first stop…
Day #9 – Goodbye NYC and Hello Beantown
Today was the day of NOTHING. Got up late, packed, ate brunch with my aunt, uncle and cousin, left for train station, got to hotel, slept…. For a change, doing nothing felt so good. 😂
Day #8 – The BASIC Day, Midtown, UN, Columbia & Central Park
After yesterday’s hectic pace today was supposed to be a normal day with a little bit of sight seeing and dinner with family. It ended up being an episode out of Seinfeld – we hed on to one word from the English dictionary “basic” and it became comical. After four days of getting up at…
Day #7 – Liberty Island, NYSE, Brooklyn Bridge & Empire State Building
Today was going to be special because I get to do 3 things that I have never done – visit Liberty Island, walk the Brooklyn Bridge and go to the top of Empire State Building. Talk about waiting 20 years to check 3 bucket list items. That is 5 trips to NYC and every time…
Day #6 – Good Bye DC. Hello NYC.
We had a few hrs before our train to NY. So we decided to make use of the time and visit the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum. It had just opened the same week, after being closed because of Covid for 1+ year. Some exhibits were interesting while the others had huge crowds. We…
Day #5 – Washington DC Ford Theater, Art Gallery & Night Tour
Day #5 was going to be our most packed day of the entire vacation – Ford’s Theater, Art Gallery, Spy Museum, Night Tour. Kudos to the kids for braving out the 20,000 steps. We started at the Ford’s Theater. The site of Lincoln’s assassination. It is now a museum and maintained by National Park Services.…
Day #4 – Washington DC National Mall
Day #4 started with a 2-hr bus tour of the National Mall. Drove around various sites from US Capitol to the Monuments past National Archives and various National Museums – very nice, scenic and picturesque. Kid #1 & My favorite – Lincoln Memorial (pictures on next day). Kid #2’s favorite – Washington Memorial. While the…
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