i was put in charge of three grandchildren for a few hours yesterday so we headed straight to ben & jerry's to split a milkshake, then explored the state theater (and even sneaked into a movie but later got thrown out for horsing around on the escalator), then i gave a nickel tour of angell/mason/haven halls, then they chased squirrels on the diag which took longer then you might think, then we looked in all the windows in nickels arcade. it all went slowly and well.
one on three is a challenge but the art fair was nigh and all the streets are closed to cars so i didn't have to worry about that, just a little bit of herding as i mostly followed them around