More Visits & Visitors

We had a great weekend hanging out with my old college friend NS who came to visit from Colorado on his way over to a week-long photography workshop in Maine. He stayed with us on Friday and Saturday and we ate our way through the weekend. First up was dinner at a Szechuan restaurant near where NS and his friend CM were dropped off by the airport shuttle. Luckily everyone at dinner was into spicy food and CM's sister, who is also a local, enjoyed it so much she planned on bringing her family back later this week. I love knowing good restaurants and being able to introduce others to them! We're still learning our way through the Boston restaurant scene; unfortunately we still feel like we know the S.F. eateries better.

On Saturday morning we went to dim sum in Chinatown, at NS's special request. I can't imagine living in a place without good dim sum (or sushi, or Korean, or Vietnamese.... ;)). Because we went early we had our pick of dishes as the carts cruised by our table and amazingly all our favorite stuff showed up right away. NS said it was like Harry Potter where the food just magically appears on the table all at once. Mmm...I'm making myself hungry for more dim sum as I type this!

After dim sum we braved the intense heat (99 degrees according to my car thermostat!) and walked over to Boston Common where there was supposed to be a photo exhibit. The "exhibit" turned out to be a dozen or so photographers acting as human easels with big photo posterboards hanging around their necks. OK....

We found a Starbucks to cool off in for about a half hour, then hit Harvard Square as NS hasn't been back to the old alma mater in about five years. Science Center is as ugly as ever, I still couldn't remember where the Pooh door is in the Yard, Sanders Theater still has lovely stained glass windows, and people are still rubbing that nasty left foot of the John Harvard statue for good luck. If only they knew....

After NS and CM left for Maine on Sunday morning, we made some food and headed over to MH and NH's place for dinner. They recently had an adorable baby boy and we thought it'd be nice to bring them some home-cooked food. Little did we realize that NH's parents were still living with them to help with the baby so they were getting plenty of home cooking. Oh well; we all had a great time catching up and the baby received his visitors very graciously, full of smiles and babbles for all of us.

Finally, WC's mom is coming from Arizona to stay with us for a couple of weeks starting on Wednesday. I hope we can get the house clean enough in time!