BOSTON

This year, Brad and I decided to take a trip to Boston - just for fun. This was the first trip we've taken where we have been tourists. And we planned it ALL ourselves - flights, rental car, hotels, itinerary. We had an absolute blast. We did about as much as you can do in the amount of time we were there!

Here was our basic itinerary:

Saturday - Travel (got to Boston around midnight)
Sunday - Freedom Trail, Boston sites
Monday - Fenway Park Tour, Harvard/Cambridge, Red Sox Game
Tuesday - Museum Day: Aquarium, Museum of Science, Museum of Fine Arts
Wednesday - Sam Adams Brewery, Plymouth, travel to Provincetown (tip of the cape)
Thursday - Provincetown, bike trails on the Cape
Friday - Lighthouse, more of the Cape, back to Boston, Prudential Tower
Saturday - return to Texas!

We did a lot... and I took TONS of pictures (over 700! no exaggeration!) So, I am going to devote a blog post for each day of our trip. Obviously, I won't put all 700 pictures on here - but most of them are on our Shutterfly account: Bevil Adventures


Here are a few pics from last Saturday (our travel day):

Waiting at the airport - our flight was delayed 30 minutes

We got to the rental car place and the guy helping us was so nice - knowing it was our first trip to Beantown, he let us pick any car on the lot! Brad chose a 2011 Dodge Charger!! Talk about sweet!

Our view from our hotel room (sorry kinda blurry!) - we stayed in Newton, a suburb of Boston

Stay tuned for Day 1: Freedom Trail!

Blessings

Umm... heard this song by Laura Story for the first time this morning as I was driving to work through the {wanna be} rain. With so many friends around me going through some tough stuff, it just really made my heart smile. PS- I made my favorite parts blue :)




We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe

Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know the pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home

Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise