Backstroke through Beantown!

Sorry you didn't get a blog yesterday but we really couldn't be bothered!

Yesterday we swam our way around the city of Boston just like a couple of ducks!  Quack quack! Yep, it was wet.  I guess we really can't complain, we have managed 4 weeks of prefect weather leading up to this.  We started our day by jumping on board "The T" or subway.  We made our way to the start of the old town trolley tour and jumped on board.  Seemed that this was a good morning for this as it was too wet to walk anyway.  This tour lasted for about 2 hours in total and took us to some of the sights around Boston.  These include the north end also known as Little Italy, MIT, Boston Common, Fenway Park (home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team), Cheers (yep from the show), The Boston Public Gardens and a few more.  After staying on the bus for the whole time, we got off the bus and walked across to the Quincy Markets and Fanueil Hall and had some lunch and a touch of shopping.

Once we had eaten and shopped we headed back to the T and jumped on board a train to Harvard.  When we arrived here it was bucketing down but we decided that as we were here, we would take a tour of the campus run by a current Sophomore student. It was interesting to get a little of the history behind the place and understand what the building we were looking at actually were, also a few fun facts and rituals.  Once we finished the tour we of course had to buy a jumper to prove we had been there.


Once we had finished the tour we jumped back on the T and headed back to the hotel  We dropped our shopping off and dried ourselves a little before heading out to get a pizza for dinner which we ate back at the hotel while watching a movie.  Once we had watched two movies and consumed too much food, we decided that we really couldn't be bothered wiring about our day.  So again you are getting two days in one. We would also like to add the excuse that it was too wet to take photos yesterday so it wouldn't have been overly entertaining for you without        pictures to see how much fun we are having.

 Today's events included walking the Freedom Trail, walking through Boston Common and Public Gardens, doing a short tour of the seaport area and also going to the observatory deck of one of the Marriott hotels near the wharf to get some good views of the city. We also walked back to the hotel via a few quaint little Boston streets and along Newbury Street (a street with lots of shopping but also can be a little pricey).  I am sure they were going to ask to see our credit cards first if we entered some of the shops along there.

 

 The photo above shows the observation deck we were on today. It is the green railing above the clock in the tower. A photo taken from the top can be seen right.

Did we mention that it pissed down again today (you cant tell from the photos as the weather changes so fast here that of course it is sunny in them) as we got off the T and we had to buy an umbrella from 7Eleven and one from the tourist office in Boston Common. Yes we both have rain jackets but that doesn't help the pants.

Again with dinner tonight we decided to cheat the system of tipping and grabbed takeaway again to eat in the hotel room while watching another movie.  












This Dog sat and watched the squirrels play for what seemed an eternity.  He barely moved a muscle but seemed to be very attentive.











There was a book written that is famous here about a mother duck walking her ducklings through the Boston Public Gardens.  As a recognition of this book the statues of them have been erected in the Gardens so that children can come and see them.