September 11 and 12

The last couple of days are going to be in point form.  Yes, that busy.
Went back to where we started in Boston, Lexington and Concord.  The history is rich and we wanted more of it.   All agreed.  Boston Rocks.

• Drove through the town of Cambridge to check out Harvard on the way.
• Did some more Revolution cool stuff.
• Visited Minute Man National Historic Park.  BTW, they were called Minute Man (and not just ordinary militia) because they made a vow to always be ready to serve their cause on a minute's notice.  They were the cream of the Revolutionary militia, and we able to deploy quickly and efficiently. 
• Stopped at Concord, site of major Revolutionary activity and also serious literary-ville.  Home of Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne.  Also, home of Ephraim Bull.  Didn't know that did you?  He invented the Concord grape.  With a little help from God, of course, but all Concord grape strains and variations and every Concord grape out there can trace it's little roots back to the sweet and classic New England town of Concord.
• Stayed in some quite dumpy hotel in some city.  Somewhere.  There was no butter and no syrup for the waffles.  Why have a waffle maker you might ask.  Not staying there again.
• Got out of there in a hurry.  Went to a very cool place for the day called Old Sturbridge Village which they boys thought would be terribly dull and had a fabulous day talking to the costumed and charactered park interpreters and such.  Think Barkerville except 1830's agricultural New England.  
• Stopped at Wethersfield on our way to New Haven, Connecticut.  This is the setting for the book The Witch of Blackbird Pond by one of our family favourite authors, Elizabeth George Speare.  Gorgeous old Puritan town near the Connecticut River.
• Arrived in New Haven.  Ate soup out of pop top cans  heated in the little microwave and granola for dinner.  

Photos coming.  Heading to DC tomorrow-ish.