Beer Fest!!!

Every year in my family the cousins do a gift exchange. Last year my awesome cousin Jenny gave us a membership to the beer of the month club and this year my cousin Katie and her husband Joshua gave us tickets to the Beer Summit in Boston. Is there a theme starting here? Who cares we'll take it!! We rounded up Marty and Maribel, rented some rooms in Boston and prepared ourselves for a night of beer tasting!

Beer Summit was held in this place called The Castle in Boston and had over 60 brewers presenting their brews. Once you arrived they gave you a little beer mug and instucted you to go forth and taste...and taste we did. Each brewer brought at least 4 beers, if not more, for you to try...needless to say there was beer everywhere. We were particularly excited to see that Sam Adams had brought their elusive (and expensive) Utopias. This particular beer sells for $200, has an alcohol content of 27% and tastes more like Port than any kind of beer. It was delish, and unlimited it we wanted it. This is the life. After 4 hours of tasting we stumbled walked to the nearest pub for some more celebration and lots of greasy food. It was a great night!

Thank you Katie and Josh!!

Cheers!

Dogfish, one of the boys favorite beers

The Marty's

The after party

Walking in a winter wonderland...

Since Bryan and Candy had an early flight we decided to spend their final night with us in Boston. Since we had such a big night last night, none of us were moving very fast so unfortunately by the time we drove up there and checked in it was already dark. Fortunately that didn't stop us from walking around. What started off as a brief history tour led us to walking pretty much the entire Freedom Trail in the snow. Afterwards we stopped at Mikes Pastries (a Coyer visit staple) for lots of yummy chocolate treats. Hey the diet will start tomorrow right?

hello!

Walking toward Faneuil Hall

walk, walk, walk

me and Candy at the site of the Boston Massacre

Where everyone knows your name!

Bunker Hill monument. It was closed, thank goodness, I was in no mood to climb it...again.

Yum!

Cute hubs

The next day we had to say goodbye to our friends, we miss you guys so much already! Thanks for an awesome week!