Saturday=Tourists

Saturday, we were the ultimate tourists. We went on one of THESE and had such a blast! We highly recommend the Duck Tour! You get to see so many landmarks and learn some interesting stuff that you wouldn't otherwise get to learn. Like, we saw a bar that they used in the shooting of the Departed and we saw the Real World Boston's house (remember...the firehouse!) and we would have never known those things were there had our conDUCKtor not told us!

Here's a pic of Lisa, Josh and I before the tour started Yep, that's me. I got to drive the boat...along with like three kids. Hey, what can I say?! I wanted to experience it full force!
Here's a pic as we are entering into the water. How cool...basically a bus that floats!
Old Iron Sides (not the old ladies standing there, hehe)
Then, after a tasty lunch at THIS place (talk about getting a little tipsy on some Raspberry margaritas!), we hit Cheers. I think it is a requirement if you visit Boston that you visit Cheers. We walked through really quick, and no, it doesn't look like the bar. But it was cool, nonetheless.

Where everybody knows your name...duh duh duh da dum duh
Here's a pic of the Granary Burial Grounds where lots of famous people are buried...Sam Adams, Paul Revere, John Hancock...and I think possibly maybe even Mother Goose! If it's not this one that she's in, then it's another one that we passed in Boston.

We also walked around the Boston Common which is kind of like a mini-Central Park. It was gorgeous. And there was also a place called the Gardens (I believe) and we got to see lots of statues (even some of these cute little ducklings from a children's book that I meant to try to find) but we didn't take any pics with our camera that turned out very well. So you'll just have to imagine that part of the day...

Truly, we were like touristy machines this day. It is such a historic and amazing city. You could literally always find something to do. We cannot wait to go back and get to do more!!! And Patty, we definitely got our hot nuts! :) We all got a giggle outta that one.

More blogs soon...

Blogger isn't working to let me finish the Boston Blogs, so I'll do it asap after it is back up!!

Sunday Night

Let's just say that Sunday night got a little crazy. And our livers still hurt from the entire weekend...

...and this is how Josh and Jeremy BOTH felt the next day. I'd say that Josh was a little worse off. Lisa and I on the other hand, well...we know our limits. :)

Red Sox Game!!!!!

Our last night in Boston (Memorial Day) we got to go to a Red Sox game. It was such a great time!!! We even got to experience some interesting Bostonians. But it was really amazing to see Fenway and to catch a game.

Here is a pic from Beer Works where Josh got interviewed by a Japanese tv station of some sort because of his Matsuzaka shirt. He was definitely awkward-Josh and didn't want to talk to the lady!

And here they are eating some sausages loaded with peppers and onions. I didn't think that I would like them but actually they were really good!!!

View from our seats...GREAT seats! And we got to see an in-field homerun as well as a homerun into the Green Monster.

This was a great ending to a great weekend. We had so much fun and want to say THANKS THANKS THANKS to Jeremy & Lisa!!! We can't wait to do it again!

Josh's Early Birthday

Since Josh's birthday is just after we get back, we celebrated with his parents last night. Here are some pics.

Kowe first...this was her gift for Josh's birthday. A cute little golf dress.And here she is begging. Of course. And being a total spoiled girl.
Here's Josh opening our gift. We have been wanting a new camera forever but kept saying that we needed to wait till we got pregnant. But to our surprise, his parents got us THIS! We're so excited to get to use it in Boston!!

Thank you!!! Happy early birthdayJosh!

Farewell Bertsch's!

Jess & Fritz are off to Virginia and they had a little going away party on Friday. I was horribly sick so I wasn't too much fun, but Josh had fun nonetheless. We played some funny games and would have stayed all night long had it not been for me being sick and having to work the next day. I didn't take any pictures except this one, but it's funny enough. Jeremy (left) made the guys chug a beer and Josh said it had been years since he'd done it. The funnier picture is one I couldn't get quick enough, but itty bitty Jessi was in the middle of the guys causing some sort of trouble. Pretty funny indeed. We're gonna miss these guys a lot but are excited for a good reason to visit Portsmouth asap!! And our vote for their next assignment in 3 years is definitely going to be for Hawaii!!!

Garden

We started planting our garden tonight. So far, so good...but we still have some things to do in it. And we're still contemplating an herb garden...so we'll see how that goes after we get home from Boston.

Cubs Game!

We took a quick day trip to Chicago to meet up with Travis and catch a Cubs game. It was so much fun!!

Here we are at a microbrewery before the game. We got some deep dish too! (Though I took us on a LONG walk only to find that my favorite Chicago-style deep dish restaurant was CLOSED! Suck!) But our pizza and beer were great nonetheless! (This is BEFORE they got their dorky Cubs visors that they INSISTED on wearing just to spite me!) :)
My favorite city in the background...
Sadly, the game went into extra innings (15!!) and we had to leave at 12:30 or so because we had a mile and a half-or-so walk back to the hotel and Travis was in town for business, so he had a meeting early. The game was fun, but turned out to be a disappointing loss. Boo.

Singing in the 7th Inning Stretch
We really had a ton of fun and are so excitd to go to the Red Sox game with Jeremy & Lisa! I think I've convinced Josh that driving in Chicago isn't as bad as he thought and we're definitely going to take a weekend trip up again this summer!

Our last day...and SEA TURTLES!!!!!!!!

Our last day at the resort :( We met some people walking down one of the beaches and she later found a sea urchin and put him back on the rock so he didn't die. He was a purple one.

There's Josh.
We made our way down to a beach that is rumored to have sea turtles that come on the beach to sunbathe. We wanted to see sea turtles SO bad all week and had no luck...UNTIL we made it to this beach, where we ended up seeing four or five playing around!

He's in the center here. The bottom is rocks.
We could walk out on these rocks and get pretty close to them swimming around
Here are two, a mom and a dad turtle. They're under the water near the bottom of the picture.

We didn't get lucky enough to catch one when it came out to sunbathe, but this guy came VERY close but we think he was just teasing. They usually don't come out till afternoon and we were there until around 11. But we were very happy that we got this close!!! After this, we went to a small town and had the BEST coconut shrimp and lunch, Josh got his last chance at some good fish before we left. Then we went to a world famous little general store that has these great sno cones with ice cream. Then we headed to the airport and it was...

MAHALO & ALOHA HAWAII!!!!

We had such a blast and hopefully we'll be able to go again in the future to see some of the different islands.

sunrise, sunrise

Sunrise from our balcony. Is there anything more beautiful?

Dinner after wedding

We had a couple of hours between the ceremony and dinner so we played around with the camera on the balcony. We got a couple of cute shots.

The theme of the evening was drinks! I had 8 drinks, every one being different! Josh says that I drank more on this vacation than I did on our honeymoon and the drinks weren't free on this trip! Whoops!

This is us toasting, me with a mai tai and Josh with his pomegranite martini
a lava float
Dinner, again, was wonderful!
Josh's toastSo cute!With our grass skirt drinks! Everything was sooo good! We also had green turtles and a hawaiian version of a long island and then some other drinks that I can't remember the name of!MAYBE THE BEST SHOT OF THE ENTIRE TRIP:Hahahahahahahah!!!!!! Tipsy much, Josh?? Travis' dad even had to take a shot of this one where Josh drank a fru fru drink!