Monday, October 19, 2009

Boston trip

More of a log to help me remember the trip. We sure did a lot of stuff and had a great time.
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-walk along the Charles river
-leaf peeping
-Walk the Freedom Trail, Faneuil Hall, Old State house, Old North Church, Paul Revere's house, walked by USS Constitution, more old buildings...
-Grave yards, including the granary and Cobb's hill. Sam Adam's grave, John Adam's..ahem..headstone..also later on in the week a scary late night haunted grave tour, which I would highly recommend
-Both Mike's and Modern pastry for cannolis, I prefer Mike's slightly, both great.
-How many amazing dinners? Legal Seafood twice at the wharf, Helmand for Afghan in Cambridge, Limoncello for Italian in the North end, LoLa for swishy American/Asian fusion on Nantucket, Brotherhood of thieves on Nantucket for some great seafood, Brasserie Jo in the middle of Boston for some hearty French
-Pretty legit Irish pub complete with an Irish band, drunk dancers doing a jig, a shot of Jameson followed by a pint of Guinness
-ridiculous view from mother in laws downtown building, overlooking the Boston commons, Charles river, beacon hill, the state house, and a view downtown. Spectacular!
-High speed fairy out to Nantucket for the night, hit the only brewery/winery on the island for some tastings, decent stuff, bought a bottle of syrah.
-stayed in quaint bed and breakfast, seven seas, chatted with the other people, pretty much everyone on the island is 40+
-road bikes around 2/3 of the island, pretty much everything is just straight off a postcard or calender. Very calm, quiet, isolated, unique.
-Museum of Fine Arts, saw some great American art, Coppely, etc
-some shopping, picked up some cold weather clothes, boots, jeans.
-visited some of the fine schools in the area, Emerson, Umass, Harvard, MIT
-rooted for the Red Sox to win on Sunday, so we could catch the next game on Monday...didn't happen...
-Saw a play at the Cutler Majestic, theater amazing, the play...well the theater was amazing.
-JFK presidential library, first time to one of those, would highly suggest visiting.
-still made time to watch USC beat the Irish
-hmm feels like i'm missing stuff...was a busy week...

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