Who'll stop the rain

mom and dad came in on saturday, and they packed a full suitcase of rain...well maybe not, but last time mom was here it was pouring and this time too...anyway they arrived at providence, rhode island...which is the cutest little airport...looks a lot like the long beach one. theyreally did arrive WITHOUT luggage...it ended up going to seattle and maui!!! my dad asked the clerk at the airline if he could get frequent flier miles for his bag, but they said no!
anyway it is a bustling city. we went to the mall ( which is three stories and the parking is next to the mall and above it). it is very jetsons!!
we only went to the mall so we could park and go to dinner...we went to a place called fire and ice...which is just like mongolian b-b-q, but you can make sandwiches that the grillers would cook up...my mom has never been to mongolian, so it was fun to take here there... then we walked around the city a tiny bit and headed back to the apartment in hopes that the luggage would be there...but alas...it was not!!

Sunday we took them to the cape...guess where?!?!? just kidding, we went to p-town again...what can i say...it is worth the drive...it is such a fun little city! oh this time on the way there i got pulled over!! all this time i have been driving like shit and i get pulled over for ahem, driving in the left lane!!! with everyone else...i didn't get a ticket, but those smaht bastards in mass give"warning tickets" so that it is on record if you are warned so the next time you get a ticket!!!! crap...now i have to stop driving like a mass-hole!!!
the trip was fun though...we took them to the city first and then the to national seashore at night...it was wicked daahk at like 7pm...so we didn't really "see" the ocean, but we sure could hear it...well we did see it with flashlights, and the tide was crazy high!!

after that we headed home and finally tried copeland's pizza, we have been talking about checking it out since we moved here, and i think all the mental build up made it great in our heads, but not in our tummies...it was not the greatest, but we were staahving at that point, so we ate it... and later that night (2:45am to be exact) the luggage came!!! yay!!!
but we did buy my dad some fun shirts while we were at the cape-so my dad finally has some tee-shirts...i can not remember more then 25 times in my life my dad wearing t-shirts!

today i took my mom shopping for a little bit and then we picked up tony and dad (who were not shopping :) ) and raced through the subway to make it to the prudential building on time so we could make our duck tour!!
this is another thing that tony and i have been waiting to do so we don't have to do it a million times, but it was really a good time...
it is an 80 minutes trip on a WWII duk boat...it is a boat that drives on land and runs on sea like a boat, though it only goes 6 miles an hour in the river..it took us all around the sights of boston; the commons, the public garden, north end, back bay, beacon hill, the state house, newbury street, faneuil hall and quincy market and then into the charles river for a skyline tour!!
eventually we ended up "docking" at the prudential building...our tour guide by the way was hilarious...adriana would have loved him-he told a lot pirate jokes and the kind of cheesy jokes that my dad and tony tell!!! but they made us all laugh!
then we walked to the pour house for drinks and burgers. what can we say, we love that place...i was trying to "borrow" ok steal this ghost off the window, but i think that the bartender was on to me, so i aborted the mission...but it was a really cute old looking halloween decoration...

we didn't get to do all things that i wanted my dad to see, but that just means, like sarah and mark, he will have to come back when we live here again!

tomorrow we are taking them to the airport (BOOOOO) but soon after that scott and carrie will be here...

on another note...we have three interviews at hospitals in tucson-so as soon as you all are done visiting us here in chilly boston, we will be on our way to sunny arizona!!! wish us luck