I did have Dave take pictures of me last night (20 weeks pregnant – woo hoo – we’re halfway done!!), but before I can post them I need to talk about our trip to Boston two weekends ago first. I need to try to keep some sort of chronological order here.

Dave had a conference for work in Connecticut so I flew up to meet him in Boston on Thursday night. Friday we went to the New England Aquarium. That’s really the only touristy thing we did in Boston. We had great plans to visit the Sam Adams Brewery and take a tour of the city, but the tour we wanted to take didn’t start until the end of March and we were lazy.

So yeah. Just the aquarium. We’ll be going back to Boston though – hopefully during baseball season. Here are some pictures of the fishes we saw. I thought “fishes” was improper grammar until Dave corrected me. Apparently it’s okay to say because we saw multiple species of fishes. I wonder if there are multiple species of mooses….

Here’s Dave hanging out with some penguins outside of the aquarium. Dave is actual size, the penguins are not – at least I don’t think they are. Dave thinks they might be. I disagree.

We also saw penguins inside of the aquarium.

They have water spray periodically to clean off the rocks. Most of the penguins jumped in the water when it started. This dude appears to prefer showers.

We also saw sea horses and sea dragons.

There’s a couple of sea dragons in the middle here (there were no sea knights or sea damsels in distress).

My favorite critters were the sea turtles. This is Myrtle. She’s over 70 years old and weighs over 500 pounds.

Here she is with a friend. Dave thinks this one was named Scoots.

And here’s one more turtle – just because I can. I didn’t catch his name.

And here we are. Dave even captured a big ugly fish in the picture with us. I’d also like to point out how wonderfully sweet and sensitive my husband is. When I was getting dressed that morning he was nice enough to tell me that the green shirt I was wearing “sort of just made me look fat and not really pregnant”. I think he’s working on material for a book he’s writing, “What NOT to Say to Your Pregnant and Hormonal Wife”.

And here’s that wonderfully sweet and sensitive man at dinner Friday night. He was not expecting a full lobster at all and really had no clue how to eat it. He (thankfully) only wore the bib for the photo.

So that’s it for our tourist account of Boston. We were able to spend a couple of hours Saturday night with Dave’s grandmother, Rose. We hadn’t seen her since our wedding and so it was really nice to actually be able to sit and talk with her for a while. Rose is another reason we need to plan another trip to Boston (during baseball season and when the Duck Tours are running).