my sister and her family came into town and took the kids to quincy market, the aquarium, the museum of science, and on a duck tour. they also came to our house and we went out to dinner. my camera had some kind of battery-related catastrophic failure so i didn't get any pictures of them (so sad about this), but here's a picture of their amazing house warming presents. FANTASTIC crock pot and a bottle of delicious maple liquor.