We left off with the Boston duck boat tour in which Caleb got to drive the thing with no consideration for the lives he held at the tips of fingers!
After the duck boat tour, we headed out on foot for what was a VERY long and, quite frankly, tiring walk around Boston (the home of Extreme, which is what I'm listening to as I complete this post!!!).
It was AMAZING though to see the old cemetery's and the architecture and historical "stuffs".
Let's get started!
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| This is a wild guesstimate of where and how far we walked. It was so beautiful that we really didn't care until close to the end. But man, was everybody happy to get back to our AirBnB at the end of the day!!! We hit a beer store and a couple of locally owned resturants for dinner that night. Good stuff. |
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| The start of our walk. Robby wanted to visit TD Garden to see where the Celtics play. We hit it but didn't get very far as the tours were expensive and booked. |
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| We did get to hit the gift shop at TD Garden but as you can tell, Robby is not quite as pleased as the bee's knee's. Everything was as expensive as crap!!! |
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| A bit later on our walk, we found out what the locals do the outsiders who refuse to annunciate our R's as W's... Honestly, we have no friggin' idea what was happening here. I can only assume it was a L.A. Rams fan. |
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| Again, I have no idea who this is a statue of. Had I done a post closer to the actual time of vacation, I would have (maybe) remembered... |
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| The site of the Boston Massacre. |
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| The seat of British colonial government from 1713 to 1776. The Boston Massacre took place in front of the balcony. |
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| The innards of Park Street church on the freedom trail. Some history of the church is here. |
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| Park Street Church from our front. |
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| The oldest restaurant in America, ye olde Union Oyster House where we had some AWESOME food and I had a Samuel Adams beer that is exclusively brewed for this location, which is kind of sexy, it's called, "Union Oyster House Colonial ale". |
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| Here we're in the Granary Burying Grounds. It's hard to read, but it says, "Victims of the Boston Massacre, March 5th, 1770, were here interred by order of the town of Boston. Her also lies burried the body of Christopher Snider, aged 12 years, killed February 22nd 1770, the innocent first victim of the struggles between the Colonists and the the Cro*** which resulted in INDEPENDENCE. Sobering, to say the least. Amazing that so many "modern day folks" are ready to give this up for various reasons. |
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| I like your beers, son. Thank you. Seriously tho, I learned what kind of a bad-a$$ this fella was on our vacation. Some massive respect for what he went thru to help make my life so easy!!! |
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| A wall of tombs. |
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| Some dude name Franklin... I think it's perhaps, maybe, the dude from the Peanuts cartoon... This is actually the burial site of Benjamin's parents as I believe Benjamin is buried in Philly. However, another one of those moments where it gave me goosebumps to realize what this guy did that is enabling me to take my family easily halfway across the continent on vacation to show them stuff! In-crazy-credible! |
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| Another slightly historical marker of some fella with the last name of Hancock... Nothing to see here, move on. *Goosebumps* |
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| As we began our journey thru the Boston Common Park. It was STUPID beautiful!! |
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| Monument of some random dude with the last name of Washington... Can't remember the first name. *sarc* |
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| Our walk down the sidewalks of Commonwealth Avenue. |
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| More... this went on for about a mile! |
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| Atop the Prudential Center around the 50th floor. That's the Chawles (Charles) river where we ended our duck boat tour earlier in the day. That long line of Greenery from the lower left of the photo to the upper right is where the pics just above this came from. That's along Commonwealth Ave. |
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| A little ocean in the distance. |
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| Notice the car accident? There's a traffic jam where there's vehicle "blood" running across the lanes of traffic with a few cars moving past but a whole host of them being backed up! |
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| Our Bnb in Milton, Massachusetts. Should you be heading to the area, I would recommend a stay at Kathy's house! I have always felt bad about the review I left for Kathy!! She was awesome and frankly, she's someone who I would immediately count as family. I gave her a 4 star rating because of ants in the kitchen but that was horse poo. She went above and beyond for her guests and I should have given her a 5 star, even though she's a Patriots fan! She did get the Cleveland Browns game on for Robby while she taught us the ins and outs of the place. She's a good lady and deserves YOUR business!! |
This concludes our Boston visit and we were quite happy to get back to our AirBnB home and chill for the night!
Robby LOVED Boston and decided that he wanted to live her, which is cool with me. Let us not forget that this city gave us Extreme!!!
I love your sarcastic posts. I don't think I've seen all that much of Boston for the times I drove in and out of the airport... I guess I need to visit as a tourist!
ReplyDelete1 day wasn't nearly enough, but if we stayed longer, we may never have gotten Robby to leave!
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