EMP in the US

On Monday we headed down to Boston to head for England. I was very excited to be able to meet up with an old schoolfriend on the way, who very conveniently married someone who’s folks live on the way to Boston.

We got to the airport where we were staying at the Hilton at Logan Airport. Ollie didn’t seem overly impressed. Hilton? Shmilton.

I, on the other hand, was quite impressed!

Now, every hotel corridor reminds me of ‘The Shining’, especially as we saw two small corn-blond boys staring silently at us in this one, though I thought it might be a bit dangerous to take a photo of them, so I made do with a photo of the corridor. I might start a “hotel-corridor collection”.

Overnight parking costs $30 (or $15 per hour!) and a burger at the in-house establishment cost $17. So we decided to venture out somewhere cheaper, and ended up at our new favourite “Chilis”, where it was fajita special night – two meals for £12.99, oh, and they do big drinks too!

Thomas displayed his true blogging heritage when I woke him up and told him there was a lovely sunrise to look at if he just looked out of the window. “I think you should take a picture of me in bed with the sunrise,” was the first thing he said to me that day.

The whole check-in business went very smoothly, with our boarding-passes being an image on my iphone. This was all good except at the gate, the stewardess said that it wasn’t a very efficient way to check-in 3 people, (I think because we would have to load each photo) but actually, she just took our names and it seemed quick enough to me!

Thankfully the plane ride was fine and the boys were really well-behaved. This was helped by good organisation, a near-constant supply of things to eat and some choice cartoons on my laptop to keep them quiet.

The main event of our visit was to meet our new cousin/niece, who certainly didn’t disappoint. She is all smiles and laughter, and particularly enjoys the blur which is Thomas buzzing around her at every opportunity.