Monica and Ben's Weekend Journal: January 2009

For Christmas Ben took me to Massachusetts for a couple of weeks. I kept saying it looked like a Christmas card, but I was too cold to roll down the window to take pictures. I got to meet alot of his family, and believe me, it was a lot. Our family's big, but his has one more generation to it. So I met them, and his friends. We spent a lot of time at his friend Tyler's house. That's where we were New Year's Eve, but as soon as the ball dropped I was asleep on the couch. We also did a small snowboard trip, which I didn't do so good at, but it made me excited to do some more here with Kirsten. We also went to the New England Aquarium. To get there we took a commuter rail and a subway. It was my first time on a subway. For Christmas we got alot of gift certificates to go out to eat, so we ate out a few times. We also hung out with a couple of Ben's brothers. I was mostly a photographer when we were with them because for christmas I made their mom a cute little brag book of all of them. When we were with them we went bowling, but it was weird. The pins were shaped funny, more like thermoses than like bowling pins, and they had small bowling balls, without anywhere to put your fingers. I'd never seen it before and never really could get the hang of it. We saw a few movies, Yes Man and Bedtime Stories were both really good.