We also saw the Royal Canadian Mounted Police perform and it was a great show with everyone cheering on the horses. Governor Duval Patrick was supposed to come and for some reason the older boys really wanted to see him so we had to wait after the show until he made it to the stadium. Once they saw him they seemed much less interested - I'm not sure what they were expecting. Possibly not a man in jeans and a button down but some sort of fancy garb and entourage (Mr. 5 did ask why Massachusetts doesn't have a king - he knows the United States has a president but a king does have a bit more pomp and circumstance that goes with him - maybe we should review Revolutionary War history again).
We had at first told the older boys we would check out the rides at the end but everyone seemed so happy with the animals and show that we headed out without venturing to the very crowded (and expensive) rides section. Although I do love a good ferris wheel.
After all the excitement, we stopped at Jordan's Furniture on the way home. The grown-ups wanted to look at something and we'd heard that it was a bit of a carnival and the kids would love it. They were not impressed at all with the furniture although Mr. 7 had brought his new favorite book Hoyle's Rules of Card Games (he's been alternating between The Phantom Tollbooth and that - we've been trying to keep fiction and non-fiction active) and stopped at every comfy chair he could find to read. What the kids loved was the "Liquid Fireworks" show that played every 15 mintues or so. We actually dragged our dinner from the other side of the place so they could sit right by the fountain and watch it over and over again. Mr. 1 would stand up and dance with the music. It really is beautiful - especially Stars and Stripes Forever. Better than the synthesized opera overtures version. We finally dragged them out by promising card games when we got home! After all Mr. 7 now knows all the rules.
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