It wasn't actually hell, although it certainly felt that way after being roused at the ungodly hour of 6:15 am. After dragging myself in to and out of a shower and a heinously early breakfast, our entire crew boarded the bus and headed out on our first Boston adventure, Fenway Park.
After at least a half hour in the bus listening to Steve the Tour Guide talk about the building shaped like a washboard we arrived at the Park. As far as baseball stadiums go it was very nice, although I'm pretty sure they don't have those delicious candied nuts that SBC Park has, which means I could never support the Boston Red Sox (sorry Matt... I still like my shirt!). Anyways, the tour guide at Fenway was ridiculously awesome and I hope that one day I have that much enthusiasm for... well, anything.
After Fenway we got back on the bus and headed out for the Freedom Trail. We didn't walk the entire thing because Matt, Jo, and Ian are benevolent souls and realized that 10 am is far too early to walk two and a half miles. So we stopped at Paul Revere's house, which is primarily notable for being the only building in all of Boston made out of wood, not brick. Also, Paul Revere lived there. After taking a group picture in front of this historic landmark we walked to a little bakery place that was quite delicious. After a quick late morning snack the crew waited in the hot sun while Ian the Teacher proceeded to slowly enjoy his latte and canoli. Very slowly...
After that we walked some more and stopped at other historic sites. We stopped at a statue of a guy on a horse (Paul Revere?) and then went to the church where the lantern that warned the colonists of the British's approach was lit. The church had really weird pews and a stolen gold angel. The church was made out of brick.
We then adjourned to lunch. I attempted to teach Adam to use chopsticks at an awesome noodle place but he failed miserably and spilled his iced tea everywhere. It was very embarrassing. We also bought lobster hats, which was surprisingly much less embarrassing.
Back on the bus once again we headed out for Boston College, which is a small, preppy, Jesuit school. Their library looked like a medieval dining hall and the tour guide laughed when I asked her if there was a Buddhist temple near by. Also, their state of the art lab doesn't blow things up very often. Boston College is obviously not ready for The Marin School.
We all got back on the bus then and laughed at the tour guide on our way to the USS Constitution, which is a really old boat. Once we reached the ship we realized that we had missed the organized tour so we just kind of sat around. We departed rather quickly. We then headed to a much more exciting boat, The Spirit of Boston, which took us on a two hour dinner cruise of Boston Harbor. We danced with a bunch of drunk middle aged people and then headed back to the hotel so we could fall into our beds, exhausted.
1 comment:
Ahh, steve-the-tour-guide strikes again. Don't you love those half an hour pointless talks about things that mean absolutely nothing to you? Unless, of course, you enjoy them, in which case I'm sure the building shaped like a washboard must be very interesting.
Despite this, your trip to boston sounds interesting. Especially going on a two hour dinner cruise and dancing with drunk middle-aged people.
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