Christmas In Boston...A Roaring Success!

Adam's parents flew out from California to spend Christmas this year in Boston. We enjoyed lots of good food thanks to mom and dad and received lots of nice presents, thanks again to mom and dad. Here are some holiday highlights from the past week.

Thursday 12/21: We checked out Galleria Umberto in the North End where we feasted on pizza, calzones and unbelievably delicious arancine, these massive baseball sized deep fried balls of rice/meat. It was super cheap to boot. We walked over to Maria's pastry shop where Adam bought a mini cannoli. The rest of us had turned him down on cannolis, but proceeded to devour his mini cannoli so he went back in to buy a regular sized one whiche we then devoured as well.

Friday 12/22: After discovering that rack of lamb cost $32 a pound at Savenors, we bravely ventured to Whole Foods to shop for our Christmas meal. We managed to find and buy everthing relatively unscathed, but it sure was crowded. I baked up a loaf of the super easy/crusty no-knead bread which we enjoyed with grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup for dinner. Then, we went bundled up and went to a Holiday Pops concert where a lady handed me a light up pin and said, "Enjoy this light up pin from Fidelity Investments who is excited to have young people here at the concert." Please note, Adam did not receive a pin. I spent part of the evening wondering just how old the lady thought I was.

Saturday 12/23: Adam's dad's birthday. We spent a lot of our day saying, "Well, Dad should decide what we should do, it's his birthday," "Dad shouldn't have to browse in shops if he doesn't want to on his birthday," "Dad should pick the game we play, it's his birthday." I think there were times when Adam projected his own desires on Dad by framing his own preferences in terms of "it's Dad's birthday." On the culinary front, we went to Formaggio's Kitchen in the morning and we treated Dad to dinner at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse downtown in the Old City Hall on School Street. The steaks were cooked in their proprietary 1800 degree oven, served on a 500 degree plate coated in melted butter...they were really tender and delicious. The sides were pretty good, but lukewarm do the steaks were the real stars of our dinner. I ate at least 12 ounces of steak.

Sunday 12/24: We went to church where the sermon included a clip of a scene from the movie Elf...it was relevant to the sermon and highly entertaining. We went to Legal Seafood for dinner where our waiter was super earnest and helpful, almost too helpful. Adam's parents were staying at the Charles Hotel so we checked out their newfangled bathroom TV. The TV is part of the bathroom mirror, turn the TV on using the remote and the TV appears from behind the one way mirror...very cool.

Monday 12/25: CHRISTMAS! PRESENT DAY! JESUS's BIRTHDAY! I was overly excited about the presents under the tree and had a mini [private] meltdown because I didn't want to wait to open them. We made yummy pancakes and bacon for breakfast. We ate cheese for "lunch." I learned how to bake an apple pie and we cooked a delicious Christmas dinner of rack of lamb, scallopped potatoes and orange/fennel salad. I insisted we watch ELF. We also called Zess who is not into talking on the phone these days. She said, "Merry Christmas, I'm all done talking on the phone, good bye."

Tuesday 12/26: Adam's parents were heading home that afternoon so we ate brunch at S&S, checked out Christina's spice store in Inman, played Bohnanza and headed to the airport. All in all, an excellent visit.