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My days here in Boston may be numbered, so I better get at least one blog in about our adventures. My DH finally took the big test he had been studying for morning, noon and night and we’ve been able to get out and about and enjoy ourselves. I’ll start with my most recent and work back…
You may have heard the Boston Celtics won some sort of award…The city shut down today and turned into a sea of green as the team paraded through the streets from the Boston Garden down through Copley and beyond in the legendary Duck Boats, more on these boats later! No flipped taxis though, these people don’t really know how to party, go Bulls!
FYI This maroon boat is Beantown Betty, the oldest one in the fleet and the one we got to ride.
Yesterday we drove the 4 hours and spent the day in New York City. Well I spent the day in the city, my DH had work to do while there. But I was more than okay with this, I love New York, if I knew how to make a heart on the keyboard I would. Upon our arrival we enjoyed pizza at a local Italian restaurant on the east side and I immediately set out for my favorite store, ABC. They were having quite a few sales except on what I wanted. But one of the clerks told me about John Derian’s store, he has not one but two shops a couple of doors down from one another on 2nd St near 2nd Ave in the Village. So I hiked the 17 some blocks and was in heaven, I love his decoupage plates and of course his shop had the biggest selection I’ve ever seen.
After these events it was time to meet hubby, have a quick bite to eat and a slow drive home. Due to traffic it took us over 2 hours to go less than 50 miles. But being a Texan at heart I made up for lost time once traffic picked up.
Now lets go back even farther in time to Sunday June 15th, it was rainy, so we took in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. What an awesome museum, even DH enjoyed it which is rare for him to even want to go in a museum unless its science related, he’s much more of a current events guy. I’d put it right up there with the Chicago Art Institute for the variety and quality of their collection. And I have to say that I’m also impressed with Boston’s Mass Transit. The train station was right across the street from the museum it couldn’t have been any easier, except for the rain. Any way we got to see the El Greco Velazquez exhibit, which had a lot of religious work, not really my taste, but amazing when you consider its all hundreds of years old. What really strikes me about these ancient paintings are the landscapes or backgrounds, no built up metropolises or billboards crowding the landscapes, just trees, farms, wilderness and such, refreshing.
On Saturday June 14th we boarded the subway and went out to the John F Kennedy Library and Museum. Again, the subway made reducing our carbon footprints seamless, it exited us right to a bus that took us to the front of the library. The library sits on the Boston Harbor with Kennedy’s sailboat viewed through the Pavilion, I think he would have liked this. We did the tour backward, we ate first and went through the door by the Pavilion, I should have realized they would want you to exit through the cafeteria and gift shop, but it was well done none the less. It began with his campaign leading to his assassination, I got to watch a sweating Nixon during the televised debates. It highlighted the major points of his short presidency and how he touched so many people’s lives publicly and privately. Near the end they had a very young looking Clinton talking about meeting Kennedy as a teen, great photo! It was my first ever visit to a presidential museum and I highly recommend it.
Our way home though was not so smooth. We had a very long delay at our 4th stop and learned that there was a fire at one of the red line stops! Undaunted we jumped off the subway and hopped in a cab which rushed us to our favorite movie theater so we could see The Happening, my recommendation: avoid this movie, it was not happening at all!
Now lets go way back to Sunday June 8th. It was my DH first real day of freedom since he took his test on the 7th. Everyday from where we live we watch the Duck Boats, that reside at the Science Museum, parade up and down the street and if we’re lucky the driver has the group quack at us while we’re walking our little dog. So we boarded one early Sunday morning in the intense heat and saw the sites. What’s cool about these aquatic boats is they’re amphibious so we took to the Charles River like a duck to water, sorry I couldn’t resist!
Here’s of what we saw….
The Garden
Boston Public Library-the day I tried to visit it was closed!
The “Salt & Pepper Bridge”
The Swan Paddle Boats Boston Commons/Public Gardens
This pic was taken a bit later but we saw it on the tour, its part of the Berlin Wall and this is our Toffee.
But what about the knitting you ask? I’m sad to report I’ve not knit a stitch since I’ve been here. But I have visited two awesome shops down on Newbury Street, DH works near Copley so I meet him down on Newbury often. Next time you’re in Boston visit Newbury Yarns and Needlepoint and Knitting Too.
And I leave you with this shot.
Do you recognize this building? We see it everyday from the park where we walk our dog. At first we thought it was affiliated with one of the many colleges or universities we’re surround by or perhaps a professional building. Or due to the beautiful public park in front with benches and tree lined walks maybe a condo building. We got our first clue to its real purpose a week or so ago while crossing a busy street and some one leaned out his car window with his wrists together asking if I knew where to go to post bail, “I don’t know I’m not from here,” my standard line. It was on the Duck Tour we learned what really occurs in this modern looking building, its the Suffolk County Jail!