Mothers Day Lunch and updates on travel

Sorry for the break in my posts but this year has been really busy work wise, interspersed with travel for pleasure too!

I have just returned home from my son's house where he cooked me a traditional roast beef lunch for Mothers Day. I am so lucky!

In January I worked in Peterborough for a week but forgot to take my camera so no pictoral records to post. It was dark when I left my hotel and dark when I returned so any photos would be drab anyway.

At the end of January my other half Mr C reached the ripe old age of 60. As a treat I decided to take him to Boston Massachusetts, a place we both love. I arranged the flight and hotel over the Christmas break without his knowledge. I also thought it would be really nice to add to the surprise so I booked for both my son and daughter to travel out there ahead of us. They flew out at lunch time Friday 29th January and me and Mr C flew out at 3pm. He had no clue where we were going and the check in staff at our local airport were wonderful keeping the surprise secret too. We arrived at Heathrow with a couple of hours to kill before boarding our flight to Boston. The booking agent at BA had upgraded us to First Class as an extra treat to add to Mr C's surprise to off we went to the lounge for a tipple or two. Our flight came up on the board and we proceeded to the gate. He still had no clue! We got through the gate still keeping our destination secret and then on to the extra security check. The guy asked to examine Mr C's bag and gave the destination away by saying "I hope you have some warm clothes in there sir its minus 12 in Boston".

His face lit up, he couldn't understand how I had managed to keep the destination a secret for so long. Then it all went horribly wrong. The flight was cancelled due to the plane having been hit by lighting. We were booked into a hotel near the airport and transferred onto another operators flight the next day. I frantically text my son and daughter who by this time were out eating dinner having a ball!

The hotel we stayed in at the airport was really nice and they provided us with a complimentary dinner and breakfast the next day. We travelled back to the airport and checked our bags in again this time hopefully we would start our journey to Boston. As we were travelling on another airline our complimentary first class cabin was no longer available but who cares we were on our way.

We arrived in Boston around 6 in the evening and headed straight for a cab to the hotel.

It was minus 12 and the snow had been falling all day it looked fabulous.

We checked in and went up to our room which was actually a two bedroomed suite. The hotel knew that it was Mr C's 60th Birthday, How kind of them!

Well we got to our room and started to unpack when there was a knock on the door and the voice said "room service". I hid in the bathroom so Mr C would have to open the door and there they were our son and daughter "Surprise Dad"! He was speechless with a tear in his eye. Worth all the planning.

His birthday was the next day and he wanted to go the Hard Rock for lunch so we decided to walk from our hotel through Boston Common. Very picturesque.

The staff gathered round our table and sang Happy Birthday to him which made him very embarrassed but hey your only 60 once!

The next few days were a mixture of sight seeing and shopping and we had a truly wonderful time that I hope we will remember for a long time to come.

On our return home my next work related travel was to Colchester in Essex. Very pretty but once again I left my camera at home so sorry no pictures of the Colchester country side. Home for one day and off I travelled to Dover for a weeks work. The weather was horrendous. Torrential rain and snow too! Sorry but too busy for photos that week too, maybe next time, where ever that might be.

Thanks for dropping by!

Mrs C