As I mentioned in a previous post, my summer has been rather busy. In June, I worked summer school, went on a girls weekend trip to New Orleans, went to Indianapolis for Student Council National Convention and went to Tahoe for a short wedding-planning trip. In July, I went to Virginia and spent a week in San Antonio for Student Council camp (oh how I miss our dorm room at Trinity University). Boston was the last trip of my summer.
Why Boston you ask? Why not? I have never been to Boston before and wanted to see a new city and see some baseball. Lobster and clam chowder were eat and lots of baseball was seen. Various touristy things to see the sights. We walked, took the T, went on a trolley tour and a Boston Harbor cruise (it sounds fancy, but it was just a short ferry tour - came free with the purchase of the trolley tour ticket!). I was prepared with my guidebooks and aquired more maps while there. I love maps. I like to know where I am and where things are.
Boston is a neat little city. I say little because it was way smaller than what I expected. One can easily walk everywhere or take a short ride on the T (the subway - it's the oldest subway in the U.S., by the way). For being a city on the smaller side, it does, however, have the most colleges than any other U.S. city! It has something like 60 colleges. I am very glad we went and learned a lot about Boston. We had a good trip, but all good things must come to an end...summer time is winding down and school is about to start up. Here are a few pictures of what we did while in Boston:
Ate an incredible meal at Legal Sea Foods (amazing restaurant). We ordered lobster ceviche as an appetizer (which I ate it all, James wasn't all about it) and then each had a cup of clam chowder. Then we shared this glorious meal - lobster that was baked and stuffed with a shrimp and scallop buttery crusted stuffing, served with corn on the cob, steamers and mussels. Yuuuuuuuummmmy!
Toured Fenway Park - the oldest ballpark in MLB. I love love love old ballparks. Fenway is 2 years older than Wrigley (which I'm just a little partial to since I grew up watching the Cubbies and I've been there several times...and it's National League for crying out loud - much better than American League!) and has so much character to it and weird quirky things that only an old park would have. We did the day time tour as well as the post-game tour after the 2nd game we attended. I'm not a Red Sox fan AT ALL, but Fenway was pretty darn awesome. Green Monstah pictured here.
I took several self-portraits because my travel partner has this weird thing against pictures. Whatever, stick-in-the-mud. This is me with downtown Boston in the background. We were on the ferry ride heading over to see the USS Constitution.
Here's a pic from one of the two baseball games we went to. Boston played Cleveland - they lost Monday night when we were there (but it was a good game), won Tuesday night (when we weren't there), lost big time Wednesday night (when we were there) and then won Thursday (we weren't there for that one). Clearly, we are bad luck for the Red Sox because they lost the 2 games when we were there and won the 2 when we weren't! It was still fun to get to experience a game there and from different parts of the park. For the first game, we sat in the third base grandstand (up behind the 3rd base dugout) and the second game we sat in the right field "bleachers" (they're real seats, not bleacher seats) behind the bullpens. Totally different atmosphere in the different spots.
And finally, we learned to sail.
Ok, not really, but I thought this was a cool picture. This was taken from the top of the Prudential Center (50th floor), which is the tallest building in all of Boston. Just a little different from being in Chicago, home of the skyscraper and land of tall buildings.
If I can get around to it, I'll try to post more pictures, but if not at least I posted these 5!
