Last night we stopped off in Arlington Center to get some Thai food from Sweet Chili (of course), and pizza from Papa Ginos. The plan was to get pizza from "Za" which turned out to be in East Arlington. A bit of confusion there.
We made it to Waltham, then spent some time oohing and ahhing at Luke.
Catherine and Jamie had a delicious cake for Tina. Um, yeah, I didn't get a picture until after we had started eating it.
Catherine made Tina a beautiful necklace. This was one that Tina had admired before.
We headed to the hotel and almost made it without any problems. We were literally across the street and just had to make a U-turn past the bus station and we would have been done. But we could not move. For what seemed like forever nothing moved. Finally, a prisoner transport vehicle to the left of us put on its lights, traffic parted a little bit, and we followed in their wake. Too bad they weren't going in our direction, but we finally managed to turn around and get back to the hotel.
Anna likes the free cookies.
Here's the view outside our window.
The next day (that would be today), after a hearty breakfast at the hotel, Tina set off to Beth Israel to do some real work, and Anna and I went to visit and "help" Catherine and Jamie. We were going to be way too early, so first we stopped off in Arlington Center for some coffee (just for me!) and a visit to Spy Pond. Anna was pretty excited to see the ducks. We came here every day when she was a baby.
We got to Waltham just in time to see Luke get a sponge bath. Jamie headed to work, and the rest of us had pizza while Luke slept peacefully in his stroller. I tried to help out a little bit, but really, Catherine had things under control. Anna and I picked up a hefty stack of pictures from Luke's first week. I helped Catherine with birth announcements while Anna drew some pictures. And then we had to head back to the hotel to meet Tina for dinner.
It took forever to get back to the hotel. Part of it was just unavoidable traffic. But a big part of it was that I was determined not to get stuck in that ridiculous traffic in Kenmore Square. I should have just headed down Comm. Ave., maybe crossing at the B.U. Bridge. What I did instead was go through the Fenway, making a big circle around the hotel. Each time I tried to avoid traffic I would get stuck in more traffic. When we finally got to the hotel, Tina was resting after a busy day at BIDMC and a conference at the Seaport Hotel. She was pretty hungry too, so it was a good thing Catherine had given us some cake to bring to Tina. Unfortunately, we didn't have utensils, but that's what fingers are for! We tracked down some more food at India Quality and 7-Eleven (for Anna), and finally went to bed.
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