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Family Adventures, LEGO, Photo-A-Day

Separate Adventures …

At Brickfest
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Today the boys had one adventure while the girls had another. I learned that I had a full day of Personal Time that I had to take or lose by the end of the year so I picked a day where there wasn’t much happening at night at work. We’re still short a person and one other person was going to be out for the weekend. That would leave only two people on and I don’t like taking time when there is a downtime to manage. But, it worked out that nothing was happening so I booked the tickets to aht andy and I could go to Brick Fest Live in Worcester.

Brick Fest Live is a LEGO show where people come with their LEGO creations both amature and professional. There are also a bunch of LEGO themed activities to do. I had gone to Philly Brick Fest several years ago when I was doing a LEGO themed YouTube show. That event was really good and I had expected the same sort of thing from today’s show. Today’s show paled in comparison. It was very small and there wasn’t a whole lot to do. I think that andy and I were there for little over an hour. We did the activity to get the free gift and then got some tacos for lunch at a cool little place with great food.I learned that Andy enjoys chorizo. We were home well before the girls.

MFA

Allison and Eva went to Boston to the MFA and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Allison had gotten discounted passes from the library for both places. The MFA had a Georgia O’Keefe installation that they wanted to see.

Family, Food, Photo-A-Day

A Visit With Grandma and Some Captain Baker’s Donuts

andy and Great Grandma
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Today Andy, Tara dad and I went to Harwich to visit Grandma Bennett. Along the way we stopped at Marathon sports so dad could get some new sneakers. We also stopped at Captain Baker’s Donuts so that we could get a bunch of Easter themed donuts. We went to Captain Baker’s last Summer and it was an amazing place with fantastic donuts. Today Andy made his own donut a Chocolate cake donut with maple glaze bacon and caramel drizzle. It looked amazing except for maple, I’m not a fan. I got a few of the Glazed and Confused donuts. What I did not know until they were done making them was that the yellow drizzle was banana. I hate banana. Luckily, it was not a overpowering taste and when I ate the donut I could not taste banana at all. I also got a couple of other donuts to bring home and one for Grandma and one for Dad plus some gluten-free ones for Tara and my mom.

Half Dozen Captain Baker Donuts

We took the donuts to Grandma’s house and ate them there. Grandma was so happy to see us. It has been a while since we’ve been able to go for a visit. Grandma could not believe how tall Andy has gotten. He’s nearly taller than her at this point.