Labor Day Long Weekend: Block Island, Rhode Island

Long weekends are for ferry rides, champagne celebrations, mass production of breakfasts, petting zoos, wishing rocks, pink lemonade, outdoor showers, badminton and croquet tournaments and lots of photo ops. 

Boston: Marathon, 2012

It's interesting that Greece is currently being featured on the blog, because the "marathon" race comes from the legend that a Greek soldier Pheidippides ran from the Battle of Marathon (a town in Greece) to Athens to announce that the Persians had been defeated. He ran the distance of 42.195 km or 26.2 miles, later established into the marathon sport at the 1896 Olympics in Athens.

And so, it's very exciting to be in Boston during THE Boston Marathon. Although I wasn't able to see the runners actually RUNNING, I managed to catch a bit of the aftermath close to the finish line near Arlington Station. It was HOT, people. At 4pm it was still hot, and I couldn't imagine how the runners got through it.

Bravo to everyone who ran.

Boston: Bruins + The Yellow Bees

I'm happy to introduce my niece's blog! It's called The Yellow Bees. She, along with a group of friends from school have started this blog where they post about the jewelry they make and the things that they are involved in.

My niece recently posted about the Bruins vs. Toronto Maple Leafs game we went to at the TD Garden where we had amazing box seats.The Bruins won 8-0. Yep, that's right.

I'd love it if you would stop by and say hi to The Yellow Bees!

Boston: Celtics vs. Raptors @ TD Garden

I went to my first ever basketball game tonight at the TD Garden (many people don't know that TD stands for Toronto Dominion) and it was extra special because it was the Boston Celtics vs the Toronto Raptors. Whaa-! 

We had spectacular seats and were surrounded by green jerseys, hats, balloons and other memorabilia. It was hard not to cheer on the Celtics, but there was no booing for the Raptors from  us! The Celtics won 96-73. 

The best part of the night? Likely the drummer outside North Station who had a whole audience dancing to his tunes and us bopping home.