The Stephenson Families' Great Californian Adventure

First time in Harvard

Another piece of old news I'm afraid - we're so behind on our updates (damn you Comcast!!!).

A couple of weeks ago we took our first trip into Harvard Square (the area comprised pretty much of the Harvard University, sitting on the banks of the river and surrounded by history, beautiful architecture and lots and lots of groovy coffee shops, bars and restaurants!) for a quick look around but with the main intention of visiting the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival on the river.

While we were in Montreal we thought there were a lot of festivals there, particularly in the summer months, but Boston so far beats it hands down, both in terms of sheer number of activities but also in diversity. There are so many cultures represented and so many vastly varying subject matters that there really is something for everyone as long as you are prepared to make a move and go to see these things. Thats one thing we probably didnt do enough of in Canada - actually motivate ourselves to do stuff, but I guess we really wern't too happy and I think it had quite a bearing on our laziness :)

So - we took a nice leisurly walk through the Harvard Square area, stopped in for coffee, and made it down to the water for the huge Chinese festival along the banks of the river. There were lots of activities for the kids - lantern making, Chinese writing, fortune cookies (of course!) and a tonne of other stuff that we didnt even investigate because it was so crowded.

Definately a good, family day out for a lot of people. Lots of food too - surprisingly anything and everything remotely "eastern" including a myriad of Indian food, for some reason. Not that I ever complain about that you understand :) In the end all we sampled (well, myself and Natalie sampled it and Karina guzzled it) was the home made ice cream which was some of the best we ever tasted, but boy did we regret it that night! Karina was on an immense sugar rush until late that evening... if I mention Beavis and Butthead - well either you understand or you don't. She was hyper!!! But it was a blast - great to see her having such a good day out. We gotta take more time to look around Harvard, its a gorgeous part of the city. So much to do, so little time......

posted by Shaun S @ 12:14 AM