Beantown, Inaugurations, and snow in Raleigh?

We had a very exciting week! We made our rescheduled trek up to Massachusetts to visit the Malynn side of the family. At the airport, Adelaide threw up after running around like a crazy woman.

Then, she was very good on the flight up (it took all of mommy and daddy's energy, but she did cooperate). When we got to the house, she seemed to remember everything and everyone from her last trip up in May. She started randomly pointing at Ryan's dad's picture last week and saying, "Steve!" so I think the constant pictures helps her memory. After only about 10 minutes of warming up she went right to Grandma Robin.

Boston, of course, has the coldest day they have had in 4 years when we got there. The snow and cold weather limited what we were able to do, and what we could do with Adelaide especially. Under normal circumstances, Adelaide would have been miserable being cooped up for 4 solid days, but with the different surroundings and constant stream of people playing with her, she did amazingly well. She loves her Aunt Jordyn, as usual, and could not stop feeding Alby the Dog cheese. Aunt Lindsay and Uncle Luke came over several times to play. Adelaide really loved playing dollhouse with Aunt Lindsay. Grandma taught Adelaide to sing Ring Around the Rosie, which was a big hit.

Ryan and I got some time to ourselves to head into Boston. We ate at Ryan's favorite burrito place, Anna's Taqueria, and then headed to Fanueil Hall and Quincey's Market. On Monday, I headed into the Lexington office to meet with some folks from work who were kind enough to travel in on President's Day in the snow!

While the trip itself was a lot of fun, our travel home was the opposite of fun. On Inauguration Day, we headed to the airport. Adelaide got carsick and threw up in the car on the way there, poor little dear. Boston stop and go traffic is not for the fragile bellied. Once there we noticed that the flights to Raleigh before and after ours were cancelled, but our was still "On Time." We took notice of the gates to DC - they were festooned with red, white, and blue crepe paper and balloons. They also had 5 additional latex-gloved security guards at each departure.

Naturally after waiting there for 2 hours, they cancelled our flight as well due to the 2 inches of snow in Raleigh. Yes, there was over a foot of snow where we were with planes taking off and landing, but Raleigh was in chaos. So, we spent 6+ hours in the Logan airport entertaining Adelaide and watching the inauguration proceedings on TV with our fellow annoyed air travelers.

It was a delicious feeling to finally get home and get into our own beds, and know that we were back to routine comfort. On Wednesday Adelaide's daycare was still closed for the morning, so we had a chance to play in the bit of snow that hadn't yet melted. I leave you with a picture of my bundled up nugget: