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- From: lmann@jjmhome.UUCP (Laurie Mann)
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- Subject: Re: What to do with 12 yr olds in Boston
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 14:44:18 GMT
- References: <1993Jan2.225818.19202@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
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- In article <1993Jan2.225818.19202@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
- > Next month we will have the pleasant company of twin twelve-year old
- > nieces for five days. Not having been 12 for a while, and never, to the
- > best of my recollection, having been a 12 year old girl, I'm a little
- > short of ideas for things to do. There are some obvious things: Freedom
- > Trail, clothes shopping, movies, etc.
-
- I'd take them for some decent Chinese food or maybe to Chinatown for
- dim sum. I'd take them for a cruise on Boston Harbor, and maybe over to
- the Science Museum (they are probably a little old for the Children's
- Museum, but if they like computers, the Computer Museum isn't a bad idea).
-
- If you want to go out to the "sticks" for a day, you could take them
- out to Old Sturbridge Village or down to Plymouth Plantation (note, though
- I have a 12 year old myself, I still haven't done either of these things).
-
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