Tuesday, June 19

Hooray!!! We have our van back!! We have a new radiatior. Actually, we now have an entirely new cooling system. Hopefully it will be worth at least a year's worth of drivability.

We didn't get the van back until late in the day, so it was a stay-at-home day today. We did laundry and cleaned house. We walked to the square for lunch since we're out of bread for sandwiches. David was an absolute monster child at lunch. He wasn't happy with anything. He cried to get katsup on his plate. Then he cried because there was katsup on his plate. Then he cried because Jamie and Rachel each had one of his french fries (it was a plateful). I could go on and on. I actually took him out of the resturant twice to calm him down. The second trip outside worked, though, and he ate every bit of his lunch! When we got home, I tried to put him down for a nap, to no avail. We read a book and lay in bed for almost an hour, his little eyes rolling the whole time. But he just would not give it up. Later in the afternoon we rode our bikes to the playground at Chenery. David braved the slides for the first time and loved them. When we were coming in the door, we got the call from Mickey that our van was ready. We got the van and drove on in to MIT to pick Tim up and have some dinner.

Tim gave us a quick tour of the MIT campus. We got to see the classrooms and study rooms that fill so much of his time these days. Then we went to the most interesting building. I call it the Dr. Seuss building, because it looks like something he would draw. It is one huge, crazy piece of architecture. The kids started calling it Star Command so David would be excited about going to see it. Then we walked over the the student center to the little Taquirita there. I have been amazed that there are no Mexican resturants anywhere around us. Jamie has planned on several trips to Las Vias and China Wok when we come home next month. Then we walked back to where our car was parked walking down the endless corridor and then in the underground tunnels that connect most of the MIT campus. Pretty cool, actually. We ended the evening back home looking up to the heavens trying to see the fly-over of the space station and space shuttle, but it was no go. It was too cloudy and there are actually too many trees all around our house to be able to see. Maybe we'll do better tomorrow night.