Flying up in 2 weeks

[marissa]

I'm going to be with my 4 year old son. We've been to Boston 2 summers in a row; this will be the 3rd. We typically stay in Peabody and drive in but we will be near the Prudential Center this time. Any suggestions for fun things to do with a 4 year old? Also I'm looking for food suggestions for he and I. Thursday we'll be near an office building for the Children's Hospital. They'll be doing educational testing and an EEG.

[drloretta]

Children's Museum in the morning and lunch at Flour. It's my go-to thing to do w/my kid.

[marissa]

We'll have Wednesday from 1 on and Thursday from 3 on. Is the Children's museum wheelchair/stroller friendly?

[drloretta]

Children's Museum is extremely stroller friendly. They have stroller parking or you can take them through a decent chunk of it from what I remember. I only have a toddler so we haven't explored every nook and cranny yet.

We liked the MoS as well, and it should have plenty of wheelchair/stroller accessible stuff. A 4yo would really enjoy it.

Rock, I'm saving all those Chinatown recs for when DH wants to come into the city. He wants to make a Chinatown shopping run.

[drloretta]

No groceries. Stuff for his workout room in the basement. He has a black belt so he apparently wants something decor-related. Not sure what yet.

[liveintheville]

We like the aquarium and then the carousel on the greenway. Also, close to faneuil hall for ice cream and watching jugglers.

Swan boats at the public garden (and there's an ice cream truck on the corner of Boylston and Arlington, what? I like ice cream).

Frog Pond and the playground in the common.

The sprinklers at the Mother Church (right behind Pru where the Duck boats are.)

If you do a trolley tour you can hop on and off which is nice.

There's a food court in Longwood. And the hospitals have cafeterias.

What kind of food does he like? In the prudential center is a Wagamamma. It's my fall back for kid eatery.