A Day of History…

Living in Massachusetts provides us with lots of interesting activities to do with our kids – most of them are great for learning, especially history.  Today was one of those outings.  With the Princess being sick, the Little Professor and Miss Fancy were getting cabin fever being cooped up in the house, so Nana J came over to stay with the two littles ones and I took the older two out for a tour of the John Adams homes.

The way the tour works is you take a trolley ride to the first two homes that John Adams lived in – one being the house he was born in, the other was the house he and Abigail Adams lived in for the first part of their marriage – after which, you take the trolley again to their third and last house, Peacefield.  Unfortunately, photography is not allowed in the houses so we were not able to get any pictures, which wasn’t too disappointing until we arrived at Peacefield.  The first two homes were pretty empty inside and the little furniture that did occupy the space were not original to the home and I’m pretty sure not even the time.  At Peacefield, which is the home John and Abigail lived in after the war for those who are not history buffs – or watch HBO, all the furniture is original to the various generations the Adams family lived in the home.

   

The Little Professor and Miss Fancy enjoyed the tours, though near the end their enthusiasm for history started to wane.  It is a long tour and after 2 hours they were ready for it to end.  The Professor had exhausted his questions – as well as the tour guide, I’m sure! – and we were all getting hungry.  Two and half hours later we arrived back at the Visitors Center just in time to see a celebration for the Patriot Ledgers 175th year.  They had newsboys all dressed up and a horse drawn carriage carrying a John Adams  look a like – Personally, I thought he looked more like George Bush – pulling up to the Quincy city hall, which was a fun coincidence as we had just been touring the homes.  We bought a couple newspapers for a nickel and decided it was enough history for today and went to look for lunch!

We stumbled upon a new Indian restaurant and the kids begged me to let us eat there…it didn’t take much begging to get me to agree.  The food was delicious and the service was great – they even brought the kids some Mango drinks on the house.  The kids were thrilled!  We ate until we were full, then we ate a little bit more, as we always do with Indian food, then we sat and laughed and talked about all we had seen earlier over some yummy Masala Chai tea.  It was a great day!

 

A little update on the Princess:  She is feeling much better, she’s finally up and playing and is starting to look like her usual self.  We’re so happy to see her feeling better.  Thank you to everyone who inquired about her and sent us well wishes and an extra thank you to all who were praying!  We truly appreciate it!!

One thought on “A Day of History…

  • 29 June, 2012 at 9:33 am
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    Hahahah! He does look like George Bush – LOL. Glad everyone had a good time ; )

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