This past weekend my mom was in Boston.\u00a0 She was in town for a National Science Teacher convention, but she had plenty of time afterwards to visit.\u00a0 I had so much fun being a tourist with her.\u00a0 We went on a Duck Tour and saw a Red Sox game, ate dinner in Harvard Square and did some shopping on Newberry.\u00a0 During her stay some logistic problems kept coming up so I wanted to share our fixes so when your parents visit it will be a great visit.<\/p>\n
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1. Have your family or visitors stay in a different area than your dorm<\/strong>.\u00a0 My mom stayed at the Park Plaza.\u00a0 It was great because whether we were around the hotel or by my room in East Campus and needed to drop something off, use the restroom or just rest we had a place to go.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2. Decide where you are going to stay while your family is here.<\/strong>\u00a0 The first night my mom was here we had dinner and then went our separate ways.\u00a0 Which was hard to do because we just wanted to catch up and visit, but I hadn\u2019t packed an overnight bag so I had to go back to my room.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3. On that same note, if you do decide to stay with your parents make sure you pack everything.<\/strong> Since I\u2019m from Florida, my mom doesn\u2019t have a winter coat so she borrowed one of mine as well as a scarf and gloves.\u00a0 We kept forgetting things in my room that we needed at the hotel or vice versa.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4. Take advantage of being away from campus.<\/strong>\u00a0 Having your parents here is a nice excuse to unwind and escape from the stress of classes and campus.\u00a0 (At the same time though don\u2019t forget important due dates.\u00a0 I did a little bit of homework in advanced so I could have a weekend \u201coff\u201d.)\u00a0 Enjoy going to sights and restaurants you may normally not go to during a normal weekend.\u00a0 My mom and I had fun exploring Cambridge and the Waterfront.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This past weekend my mom was in Boston.\u00a0 She was in town for a National Science Teacher convention, but she had plenty of time afterwards to visit.\u00a0 I had so much fun being a tourist with her.\u00a0 We went on a Duck Tour and saw a Red Sox game, ate dinner in Harvard Square and … Continue reading Abby: Family Visits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44302],"tags":[44441,44393,44395,44394],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}