Boston In Review

Our Boston roadtrip, also known as "Freedom Tour '07" was a pretty amazing time. Elisha, Meg, and I left a week ago last Thursday at around 5pm, and rolled into Massachusetts around 2am, and Boston a few hours after that. Our room for the weekend was the Hampton Inn in Revere, MA, which I'd highly recommend to anyone planning on making a trip themselves. It had a shuttle to the subway stop (Boston's subway is likely the easiest system to navigate that I've encountered), a great continental breakfast, as well as an entertaining hotel bar. Which is always key for a snowy night, such as we faced on Friday.

We ventured out to the New England Aquarium on Friday, and saw lots of cool creatures. The aquarium is built around a 4-5 story high tank in the middle filled with all sorts of "aquatic life":) From the three fishes traveling in a school, to some sharks, as well as aquarium staff swimming through the tank in scuba diving gear.

Our trolley tour through the city was dampened by the freak snow/ice storm that rolled into town, but we persevered and saw all sorts of markers of Boston's history. This included the site of Paul Revere's famous ride, Boston Common (the first public park in the United States, of land donated by the Pilgrims), the Swan Boats, and of course, where the Boston Cream Pie was invented! We swung by Faneuil Hall, a classic tourist hot spot, and had a drink at the Cheers franchise set up there. Great accents abounded at every stop on our tour through "Bastan".

Saturday was a full day at the Museum of Science, an absolutely amazing spot set on a bridge between Boston and Cambridge. Still didn't make it to Harvard, but one day it will happen! After the MOS, we subwayed across town to the Fenway Park stop where we partook in an attraction called "Tomb". Kind of hard to describe, but basically it was a fake Egyptian Tomb and our group of 8 acted as archeologists in uncovering clues and solving mysteries in order that the tomb's "mummy" be placed in his rightful carcophygus.




Of course, Saturday was St. Patrick's Day, and the three of us took part with lots of enthusiasm! We hit a few spots: Boston Beer Works, Boston Billiards (both in the Fenway Area), and then finished off the night at The Cactus Club in the Back Bay Area, near Berklee School of Music. What a great bunch of people Bostonians are! So friendly, sweet, welcoming, etc. I could go on and on, but I won't go on and on!

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