We woke up before dawn on Saturday to travel to Boston. Daddy had a business trip and Mommy and Mia wanted to tag along since it was his birthday weekend. We got to the airport and sleepy Mia perked up. She climbed up onto the baggage claim scale and got her weight measured before we could tell her not too. She weighed in at 27 lbs. while Mommy and Mia's bag was a mere 25 lbs. Mia was very excited to fly on a plane again. And we all were excited when we found that we practically had the entire plane to ourselves -- there were only 12 passengers total. It was the shortest flight that Mia had ever taken (a little over 1 hr.) and she was such a good little traveler. We hopped on a bus and headed to the Westin. The people at the Westin were so happy to meet her. She came in dragging her new backpack (she didn't realize that it didn't have wheels) and they provided her with a much lighter pack filled with treats (sun hat, colored pencils, etc...)
Mia loved the view of downtown Boston from our room. She would often perch herself up on the window and just babble and babble at the boats in the harbor, the planes in the sky, and cars and people on the street below. We took her to the Boston Children's Museum where she learned about boats, played in a wonderful indoor play yard, watched The Three Little Pigs and much more. Later that day, we went to dinner in the North End for delicious Italian food (Mia ate her soup out of a olive oil dish -- see below -- very cute and fun) and later to Quincy Market to do some window shopping. The only small meltdown in the evening happened over some decorative soap. She stayed up late and in true Perry fashion, fell asleep in front of the TV watching the AZ Wildcats crush the AZ State Sun Devils.
The next day, Mia decided to give daddy and early morning happy birthday wake up call and got up around 6am. Daddy had to give a talk at the conference during the morning so Mia and mommy hung out in the lobby. We rode the escalators for what seemed like hours! Then we had a great lunch of mostly French fries (hey, we were on vacation!) and took a nice long nap. We had a light dusting of snow and Mia got to throw her first snowball and caught some falling flakes on her tounge. As we headed in from the snow, Mia said "Bye bye snow, love you snow". Fun stuff. At night we headed back to the North End for some wood fire pizza and soup (Mia ate hers out of an olive oil dish!) and a wonderful evening near Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market posing in front of the Christmas Tree.
Mommy and Mia came home on Monday. Mia was again, an expert traveler. She had so much fun watching people at the airport and we were lucky enough to have rocking chairs at our gate. So, Mia found a shelf of bottomless Delta Magazines and rocked and read until we hopped on the plane. The flight was awesome- again not too crowded. Mommy was so thankful for that!
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