{"id":1212,"date":"2016-02-15T18:45:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2016-02-15T18:47:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T23:47:57","slug":"jones-family-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"Jones Family Outing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mystic Jones Clan met us at the Museum of Science<\/a> today.\u00a0 They’ve never been, we’re long-time members with a fistful of free passes, and the various cousins love seeing each other, so it was a date.<\/p>\n

We planned to meet at the museum, but our first hurdle was knowing what time they would arrive — it’s a 90 minute drive for them, but only 20 minutes for us.\u00a0 We made a rough guess on when to leave, and happened to get into the parking garage two cars before they did.\u00a0 The museum garage was full, so we both wound up in overflow parking around the corner at the Galleria Mall.<\/p>\n

\"lightning<\/a>The MOS is the MOS, which means we all had a good time.\u00a0 Half of us got to see the electricity show, half chose to play in the animal displays.\u00a0 We all got to play in the hands-on bits in the ‘models’ exhibit.<\/p>\n

The youngest cousin is not quite six, so we finished with the museum after not too long.\u00a0 He had fun monkeying around in the Discovery Center for a while, but even that’s not enough for a six year old to last all day.<\/p>\n

\"Meghan<\/a>
Meghan kept little Mu busy and entertained. When he snuggled up in a sleepy-little-kid pose we had a collective realization that he’s tired.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We wandered back to the mall to grab a little food and figure out dinner.\u00a0 A mall-wide fire alarm kept us outside for a bit, but eventually the fire department showed up and disabled it — false alarm.\u00a0 We considered our options while running around Newbury Comics and settled on an early dinner at P. F. Chang’s – right outside the mall.<\/p>\n

The food was excellent, the service was terrible, the kids were acceptable.\u00a0 Meghan got in some little boy time, giving Katie a break.<\/p>\n

As the sun went down, some flurries kicked up as a fresh storm prepared to roll in overnight.\u00a0 The Mystic Joneses had a long drive home so we all packed up and headed out.<\/p>\n

\"lighting<\/a>
The Lighting Show in the Theater of Electricity, at the Boston Museum of Science. Meghan thinks the bolt looks like a dancer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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