I am now in Baltimore in the huge and beautiful barn style house of girlys aunty and uncle. There is snow on the grass and sun in the sky and I have just taken a long and glorious shower. Even though we were in Boston for about a week I didn’t really get a chance to write. Boston was a great place to stop and rest and have a bit of a refuge from the crazyness that is America. Boston was cold. That is the first thing to say about it. I began to understand the jokes about New England that are made in the West Wing now. The second last day before we left we had what Uncle called the true New England experience of eating icecream in the snow outside. It was really good in a “ my fingers are going to fall off” kind of way. Little nine year old cousin is like a mini version of my lovely girly and it has been just a wonderful gift to see such close family ties. It was so easy to get along with this part of the family. We all had so much to say that we found it hard to wrap it up at night.
Little cousin is in a big Christmas/ Yule play called Revels, which is full of dancing and singing, even morris men which I could not stop thinking about Terry Prachett’s morris men throughout. The play is a celebration of winter solcest and was beautiful to watch in the cold and dark nights. Little cousin had 14 performances so was tired the majority of the time but coped well in the end. Although she did get sick towards the end so was struggling through it. Her birthday on Christmas eve so it’s alot of excitement all at once. Uncle is turning fifty in march but is like a five year old or four year old at heart. Girly and I were surrounded by cheer and love.
Boston is magical kind of like a Melbourne except old and Harvard is there. Girly and I were blown away by Harvard. Our minds were filled with dreams of studying there and we found ourselves buying merchandise. My Christmas present from girly was a Harvard Uni medical school jumper, which I have to try not to wear all the time. There are amazing museums there, poor girly was dragged to another natural history museam which was a little odd full of dead stuffed animals, girly pointed animals are alot more fun when alive. We went to Harvard three times and I was thrilled, I am quite the elitist it would seem. Seeing Harvard collegian pins made me think of 30 rock and Twofor. You can get the oddest stuff too like Harvard golf tees.
The Boston Museam of Fine Arts was awesome one of the best art gallerys we have been to so far. They had just opened up the new American wing and the building itself was beautiful you could see the frozen river and snow geese outside twas lovely. We went iceskating was fun, if a little terrifying, I hadn’t iceskated since I was fourteen so I was more than a little rusty, but i got the hang of it and i was soon letting go of the wall and skating better. Poor Girly had never skated so she hilariously pulled her way around the rink, her feet barely moving, very sweet. Little cousin was great on the ice. It was already magical enough when, it started to snow. We listened to corny Christmas music drank hot chocolate in the snow and walked home via a book store truely wonderous. Then we were snowless for along time and then the day that our plane was meant to leave for Baltimore we got 18 inches of snow and our plane was grounded. It was sad as we had to delay our trip to other family. We did however get to go sledding and we were knee deep in snow.
We got to leave the next day and now I am writing after a lovely day with Baltimore Aunty who is bubbly lovely! There is great food here and we eat at wonderful cafes and restaurants and aunt loves to shop. Cousin’s are also the sweetest. Oldest boy is a charmer and really bright with a girlfriend who is so pretty she glows. Middle cousin is just lovely the sweetest girl. I just want to hug her. Smallest reminds me of my big brother when we were little with huge eyes and a afro. There are also two beautiful dogs here. One is a mut and the other a burmease mountain dog. Also a shy tabby cat . Loving the states! Aunty is a lovely world wind! She is spoiling us rotten, we have done so much shopping! Both Girly and I got lots of new outfits for our wardrobe and we got Manicures and Pedicures I have pink nails and girly has blue!! Soo cute. We also got to go to a really cool art museam with very modern art and sculpture with a cool exhibition on Laughter. The girft shop was really cool too!Food here is great also Aunty either cooks for us all including her family friends and her childrens friends who come over oftern so the house always feels warm and full or we go out to wonderful places! For our last night we went to this really cool sushi place that had wild sushi! Including one roll called the recession roll. Very odd. Aunty even got me a massage which was so blissful the woman was so talented I felt so relaxed and had some breathing room from all the action too. I had a wonderful time Next stop New York!
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