Home, also known as Summer in Boston

Happy happy to be home!

We just returned from an absolutely wonderful trip home! It was our second time home since we moved to Dubai, and after an exceedingly stressful visit over Christmas, we learned to schedule less and allow more relaxation time. So relax we did, although the time still always goes waaay too fast. It was much easier to come back to Dubai after Christmas, when it was cold and snowy at home, than it was this time, when it is beautiful and summery in Boston (and it's still 110 degrees and humid in the Dubai summer). And I had to come back a week sooner than Jared (because I stayed that extra week at Christmas to sort out the rental car accident. argh.). So I spent a lovely 10 days or so, catching up with family and friends and attending our friends Amy and Patrick's Wedding.

Group Photo before heading off to Amy & Patrick's Wedding. Amy is Jared's friend from high school, so a whole bunch of our friends who went to high school with Jared went too!

Beautiful Bride Amy and Jared. Doesn't he look dashing in his lime green tie? (I picked it out for him, of course).

Jenn & I. We caught the bouquets! The two Jen(n)'s caught the bouquets!!

Me & Jared with the happy bride.

So we arrived home on Friday, July 30th, and other than helping Amy and Patrick celebrate their wedding day on July 31st, ate our way through Eastern MA, while taking time to catch up with family (Jared's parents and brothers, and my Aunt, Uncle, and cousins in Wellesley, and conveniently my Grandma Weske from Florida came to Wellesley for a visit while we were home too!) and friends.

And after catching up with family and friends, our second objective while we're home is always to get our fill of American food that we can't get in Dubai. On the way home from the airport our first stop was the delicious dirty Chinese food Ming Dynasty in the South Shore for a PooPoo Platter and crab rangoons. Throughout the rest of the week we made sure to get our fill of American beef, buffalo wings, and nachos. Yum. It's no wonder I gained 5 pounds while I was home. Oops.

Since the weather was so nice, we spent the majority of our time in the South Shore and beaching it in Duxbury. By the end of the week, while enthusiastic that we had had virtually perfect weather for the whole of our holiday, I was worried that I wouldn't see any rain. Since I haven't seen any precipitation in 8 months, I was going to be really disappointed if I came back to Dubai without seeing any rain. I mean I was in London for 8 days for crying out loud, with no rain! I got lucky with a little shower on the Thursday afternoon before I came back, and my visit was complete. I love New England in the summer, so it was with more than a little heartache that I boarded that plane on August 8th to come 'home' to Dubai. Oh well, until Christmas...