champions

Well, they did it. Nick's marching band won grand champion at the biggest parade of the season. And not only did they win grand champ, they also won their class and swept every award in their class. Their win was by over 2 points, which is the largest spread in the 30+ year history of this parade (last year the difference between first and second was .25). They finished out the season completely undefeated. We're so proud and thrilled and absolutely exhausted!

We're also headed out of town in two days. We call this "poor planning." We've known this trip is coming up for months but it still totally snuck up on us at the last minute. As in, last Monday I called Nick and said "uh, honey? We need someone to watch the dogs. Next week." That kind of thing. Fortunately, our favorite dog watcher agreed to come stay at our house and entertain our pups and be woken up at 4am just because. Don't tell him the last part, m'kay?

So we're trying to get laundry going and details arranged and dogs cared for and suitcases packed all while trying to catch up on the sleep we've missed over the past two weeks so we're not completely sleep deprived when we head out of town.

Where are we going? Boston! This is our fourth trip in four years, so yes, it's safe to say we love the place. We'll be spending lots of time with Nick's sister and her husband, we'll see the Boston Pops play their 4th of July concert and we'll eat lots of seafood.

You can check out our previous Boston adventures here here and here.

Have you ever been to Boston? Do you have a must-see of must-eat for us to add to our list? We'd love to hear it! (Just don't say Freedom Trail. Been there, done that, Nick never wants to do it again.)

ps - We're talking about pouring concrete over at the Service Magic Connection. Lots of flashbacks to our garage-slag-pouring-adventure that happened two years ago this month.