Day 301 - October 28

My costume for tomorrow night's school trick or treat night.  It's yellow pajamas with the spots to turn me into Chester - our school's favorite cat for 2 years running.  I found some hemming tape so I didn't have to sew. :)

Day 300 - October 27

We read this for book club this month.  It's about the woman & family behind the famous "HeLa" cells.  Her cancer cells were unusual in that they were easy to keep alive in the lab.  Decades later, HeLa cells have been used in all kinds of science - from the Polio vaccine to space flight.  It was really interesting.

Day 299 - October 26

I read this book on vacation this weekend & really enjoyed it.  It's a novel about a girl who is kidnapped in college and held captive for almost 10 years.  It's one of those books that you feel weird saying you enjoyed - but it was good. 

Day 298 - October 25

We did it! This morning we headed over to bunker hill and walked the last piece of the freedom trail. We also grabbed lunch at Regina pizzeria because the line was down the block on Saturday which led us to believe that it'd be tasty. It was good but my 3 sons is better. :) Now we're waiting for our flight...

Day 297 - October 24

Lots of sports this weekend! Today we took the Fenway park tour and then hunted down a place with Sunday ticket to watch the ravens game. We finished off the evening with one of my college friends at dinner!

Day 296 - October 23

We walked many many miles today. First we took the T to harvard and walked to the river where the head of the Charles was happening. we walked about 2/3 of the course which took awhile and the walked to the prudential building so we could visit the 50th floor observatory. My feet are so so tired! Tonight we headed the north end for dinner and a bruins game. Doesn't matter the sport- that ny vs Boston animosity runs deep! It made for a fun game. :)

Day 295 - October 22

Before leaving, we both picked a splurge item for vacation. He picked bruins/rangers tix for tomorrow and I googled and found a dessert restaurant named finale. Best part? It's actually in our city block!

After dinner we headed over to scope it out. They're having an October special for national dessert month-buy a sampler platter, get the molten cake free.

We got it all down but really could have used a third person for that lava cake!!!

Starting at 12 o'clock:
Mini Boston cream pie-had dark chocolate shell on top which usually I don't like, but it was tasty.
Brownie sundae-the brownie was thin and super fudgy. Excellent.
Creme brûlée-eh. I have never understood the appeal of this dessert. It was probably good for people who like it...
Whoopie pies-one for each of us! Brownie outside with whipped cream inside. Yum.
Strawberry shortcake-wow!! I liked that the cake had a little crispness to it instead of the usual bland spongecake. I would get a regular size order of this if we ever went back.
Some kind of fancy cake/mousse thing-it was ok, but it was sitting in some kind of apricot goo that I didn't like, so that took it down a notch for me.
Sorbet-just your average raspberry sorbet
Apple cranberry pie- it was ok but I don't particularly love apple pie to begin with.
In the middle-cheesecake-it was fine, more whipped than common cheesecake.

With our sampler platter, we got the free molten cake. It was excellent, but the platter was more than enough for 2 people, so it was hard to get it down! Mike had the ice cream because they used real espresso.

Also done today: Sam Adams brewery tour and urban hike of the freedom trail(backwards so that we ended at the hotel) except for the ship and bunker hill that we'll hit later...