Freedom Trail

The weather looked nice for mother's day so I decided we would try walking the Freedom Trail in Boston. I hadn't done it in years and the kids wanted to try following the red line through the city.

The first part of the trail brought us to the State House. It wasn't open on Sunday so we just looked at it from the outside.

Here's the Old South Meeting House. Inside there are many small cubicles with benches that the kids liked sitting in and pretending they were different houses.

We stopped outside the Old State House for a snack. Inside we had a great time. There's a museum that had many activities for kids. I had never been in, so it was a surprise. We'll definitely go back!

Next was the Faneuil Hall area. Before we went into the actual Faneuil Hall, the kids stopped for this picture and then we found a place to eat. We were hoping to make it to the North End by lunchtime, but instead we ended up at a new Mexican restaurant and it was delicious!

The kids wanted to be the "fire" inside Faneuil Hall. We sat for about 10 minutes to listen to a woman talk about the building and we learned a lot.

We walked across the Greenway to get to the North End.

This is outside Paul Revere's house. He's a distant relative of mine so I always think it's neat to go here.

Of course since we were in the North End we had to stop for coffee and pastries, then we ate them on the Greenway!

We weren't going to make the kids walk all the way back to the beginning, so we took the T. They thought it was loud!

I was very surprised and impressed at how well the kids did all day. We still have a ways to go to finish the trail so we'll pick up where we left off some other time.

On our way home I decided to stop at a garden center and buy some plants. I didn't bring the camera so I don't have photos, but the kids had fun picking everything out with me, then they insisted that they weren't hungry for dinner and needed to help me plant everything that evening.

It was a really fun mother's day!