I made a separate entry for the gym because I thought it was important that a good school has to have good sports facilities. We toured a bit late so it was about to close already but we were able to see part of it and were impressed
Outdoor Tennis Courts
The Love Gym
I have never seen anything like this, I think it is very well said
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Continuing our educational tour, Another 30 minutes drive from Andover, is Exeter. Again, we passed their main street 🙂
Another beautiful campus
The campus was busy as kids were registering for Summer School and parents were dropping them off
Post office for the kids to get their mail
A very safe campus
One of the Boarding Houses
The school bookstore
The library -the second largest in the world for secondary school
Inside the library
Phillips Exeter is known for their Harkness Classroom
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Is it true that all cities in the United States have a MAIN STREET? We noticed in our road trips to the small cities, they always had a main street which was like their main street for shopping and restaurants…hmmm…This was the main street of Andover
So we drove through main street to look for a place to have breakfast and we stumbled into this! Bruegger’s Bagels!
Wow! And of course….the land of choices!!! They have all kinds of bagels!!! It makes it more difficult to choose when there are so many choices 🙂 Drives me nuts!
Despite the many choices, we still went for the regular with cream cheese
Tried to be healthy and ordered the whole wheat bagel
The cinnamon bagel was also good!!! Sticky but good 🙂
They have a window where you can watch make the bagel- KETTLE BOILED BAGELS
And you can take home bagels of course and the different kinds of cream cheeses in tubs already ready to go
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The road trip started from New Jersey to Boston ( Boston, Massachusetts July 27, 2010 ) and from Boston we continued our educational tour ( Harvard University July 29, 2010 ) and took a peek at Phillips Andover in Andover. A beautiful city and a nice environment for kids as it is very safe, a city with many greens, and a place with not too many distractions, therefore conducive to studying. It was a saturday so there was no classes and no one was around to show us the campus. So we just drove through
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Heart2Heart loves ROAD TRIPS! I definitely like it much better than airplanes! We are lucky to have a patient and very good driver
1.) We take along our good friend, the GPS, so it is very easy- no need to buy any maps and try to read them. And at any give point if you get lost, it will lead you back on track
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2.) It’s BONDING TIME for the family. Though the kids always fight and we get into each others nerves….we are forced to stay inside the car and just stay together and learn to deal with each other 🙂 At the end, we have fun and enjoy being together as a family.
3.) We are always on the lookout for these signs, hoping our favorite fastfood is in the next stop
We like to stop and have breaks in between……. and because of the breaks, the trip does not seem so long after all
We were actually lucky one time, we got lost or made the wrong turn and we ended up seeing a chinese take out place, so we got to eat our rice!! The chinese set meals come with so many things already for a very reasonable price
General Tso’s Chicken! 🙂
4.) There is lots of beautiful scenery on the way. In a plane you will probably see black scenery or clouds when you look out your window. In a road trip, everywhere you go is a different landscape and it is so beautiful. My favorite was this field of sunflowers! I have always wanted to see this…hoping I could have fresh sunflowers all the time in my home
5.) You can stop wherever and whenever you like
6.) Every trip is an adventure because you do not know where you will be passing and what you will be seeing or where you will have your next meal.
Heart2Heart LOVES ROAD TRIPS!
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Right beside Shabu Zen ( Shabu Zen, Chinatown, Boston July 30 ) is the little DIMSUM cafe! We like it because it is dimsum all day not only lunch! We ate here after Shabu Zen!! Trying to taste everything in the short time we were in Boston.
Very reasonably priced!
Just check everything you want to order in the checklist
Of course! Xiao Long Bao
The kids love bubble tea! In the Philippines can be bought in ZAGU or QUICKLY
More bubble tea in Chinatown
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Of course we have to eat in Chinatown, whatever part of the world we are in. We crave for rice! 🙂
Our cousins, MJ, Chris and even our nephew, Christian, highly recommended this and made sure we ate here….so we did!
You can request for the pot to be split into two so we had SPICY and regular
We got the Top Grade Black Angus USDA Choice, it looks a lot but those are thinly sliced
YUMMY! The water was wondering and could not understand that we wanted only BEEF – he wanted us to order vegetables! 🙂
In the bar area,
they have a mini hotpot if you are alone 🙂
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One of the highlights of the trip, Harvard University. We wanted our sons to see the campus. We want our sons to aim high, whether it be Harvard or some other institution that will give them the best education they can get!
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About a block away from the Faneuil Hall Market ( Faneuil Hall Market July 28, 2010 ) is the Union Oyster House restaurant. It is the OLDEST restaurant in Boston! Yes, we were very touristic since we were really tourists in Boston! 🙂 We wanted to try their clam chowder which I read about. Since I am not an oyster expert, nor a clam chowder expert, we could not really tell if it was the best 🙂 but the clam chowder was good! We wanted to make sure we got the full Boston experience so we had to have a clam chowder!
They literally had an OYSTER BAR! It was full!
Was trying to get a shot of the condiments for the oysters
Since we were just having a snack to try the chowder, we skipped the long long lines and we sat in the lunch area
Their bread is always so good!
Calamari again of course
And the CHOWDER
plus the crackers
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