Big summer travel news !!

This past August, Pam and I went to Boston, to meet her "new" 44-year-old son.

That may sound strange, or even impossible; it is in fact quite true. An infant she gave up for adoption in 1968 has now come back into her life, and into mine. Pam found him in January, the the day after his 44th birthday. And on August 11, we attended his wedding in Lexington, MA.  It was a joyous occasion, as you can imagine. Pam had gone up a few weeks earlier to meet David and his fiancee, since "meeting Mom" and "marrying the love of his life" seemed to be a bit much for a single weekend !!

We were very lucky, too, because Pam's daughter Saskia and son Tanner were able to come to the wedding, too. They stayed at the same hotel as we did, so we got to spend a lot of "quality time" together.

While David was finishing up plans for the wedding, Pam,Saskia, Tanner and I did some historical sightseeing. Here they are at the Old North Bridge, in Concord, MA. [I was working the camera, apparently.]

These few days were a part of a two-week (or so) swing up north, during which we visited Pam's brother Jim, in Hamilton, NY, saw some pretty books in libraries in western Massachusetts, and stayed in some nice B & B's along the way. Our friend Kim Greer even drove up from RI to spend a couple hours talking with Pam.

Good fun all around !!