Trip to Boston, MA, Monday, June 5, 2006

Trip to Boston, MA
Monday, June 5, 2006

Monday we got up and made sure everything was packed up. Monday’s weather was gorgeous. The best weather of the trip. We headed over to the Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum area. I took some pictures.

View of Boston Tea Party Museum site with Children’s Museum in back
View of Boston Tea Party Museum site with Children’s Museum in back

Then we went off to Brattle Book Shop, founded in 1825. We looked at their selection of $1, $3 and $5 books. Then it was off to find some food.

Brattle Book Shop

We ended up at Delmarcio’s café. It’s next to Old City Hall. Then it was back to the hotel to check out. Then we walked over to Marriott Long Wharf, next to Columbus Park. From there we took the water taxi over across the bay. I got some pictures of the Boston skyline.

View from Water Taxi (the big white tend is where Harpoonfest was held)

View from Water Taxi

View from Water Taxi

View from Water Taxi

Then it was a shuttle over to the airport. We were a little early for our flight, but it was nice to just sit and not have to worry about getting there in time. While we were waiting we purchased some blueberry muffins to eat on the plane. They were very tasty.

The plane ride back was okay. Hit some turbulence, but also got to play Cranium on the little screens that they use for the safety video. Learned some things.

The trip home from the airport was not as uneventful as I would have liked. Almost got into a wreck. Somebody decided to pull out in front of me going significantly slower than I was going (I think I could have walked faster than that guy was going). It was a little scary. But finally we made it home.

Summary
We took a travel book with us, but the book was a little old. From the book: Bus fare $.75; actual bus fare $1.25. The book even described Bostonian “Customs & Culture” but left out the customs of: using the horn to announce the presence of your car at ALL times and the need to travel in packs by limousine. We tried to eat some real Bostonian fare, but never got around to having the frappe.

Limo