The Prince Family: 2008 Ride for Research and Boston Weekend

Tyler and I spent a long weekend last week in Boston for the annual Brain Tumor Society's Ride for Research. As most of you know, we lost Robes (our brother-in-law and uncle) to a brain tumor nearly 10 years ago. For the past three years, Tyler and I have been traveling to Boston (by the way - Tyler saves her money each year for her plane ticket there) to participate in memory of Robes and to also ride for those who are fighting this terrible disease.

Part of the weekend's events is the opportunity to catch some of the sites and spend lots of time with cousins and extended family members. As you will see in MANY of the pictures, Tyler, her cousin Adrie, and Adrie's cousin Emma are all dressed in pioneer outfits. This has become a tradition as well. We have some great blackmail pictures for all those dates to come when they get older! I can hardly wait to see what happens when they are 21 and if they are still willing to dress in bonnets and walk down the streets dressed as pioneers!

We had Rick Church with us this year riding as well as Chuck and Emma again (Robes' brother). Jamel was there for his 8th year, Ellen Patton (Robes' sister and mastermind behind "Patton's Army), Tad (with his daughter Zoe) and Brian, the workhorses of the crowd (and by the way, this was Brian's 11th year riding) all joined in as well.

This is really a big event with hundred's of riders each year. This year we rode 25 miles again. The girls did a fantastic job! (When's the last time you sat on a bike for 25 miles...up and down hills?)

The girls's day out in Lexington, MA....visiting the historical sites...getting looks from drivers passing by and being asked for group photographs!

Minute Men Memorial

John Hancock House - Samuel Adams and John Hancock were here the night Paul Revere rode through on April 19, 1775, warning them about the approaching British soldiers.