Last Friday, Adam's parents kept our kids and we headed to Boston for the weekend! Our friend Matt went with us and we had a great time. I have to confess that we did quite a bit of extra walking due to my lack of planning... but hey- I never once made the claim that when we get there I would know what to do next. I just got us to the airport and got our hotel and tickets online. We took the subway from the airport to the hotel. I will say that I knew we would at least be doing that b/c it was much less expensive than a taxi and the internet said it wouldn't take that long. I just didn't pay attention or look hard enough to find out where we got off on the subway. Our hotel was Holiday Inn Brookline. There were 2 different Brookline stops on the subway so I figured that that would be in the area or on the same street. Well, when we got off we looked around a little bit and I finally asked a police officer who instructed me that it was about a 15-20 minute walk in a different direction. We only had backpacks and we were excited to be in the city, so we didn't mind the walk. But then about halfway it started raining! We finally found the hotel and got to our room. It was early, but we decided to go ahead and start making our way to Fenway Park and stop and eat lunch on the way. It was supposed to clear up that night and be pretty weather, but when we left it was still yucky outside so we decided NOT to bring our new camera to the game. (what were we thinking?!!) Actually, we thought that the next day that we would take a tour of the park and we could take pictures then. Stupid. We didn't make it back in time the next day and so we have NO pictures of the ball game- the main reason we went to Boston, to see the Red Sox play!! Matt took a few pictures of us at the game to prove we were there with his camera, but still- I wished for my camera. It turned out to be perfect weather! We were about 2 seats away from crying over not being able to see the field. We sat in the infield grandstand about 5 rows up from a huge supporting beam. It ALMOST blocked our view of the batter and pitcher, but thankfully we could see what was happening. Sox won 3-1. Saturday we figured out where we were and got on the subway and did the walking tour of the Freedom Trail and saw a lot of the historical part of Boston. It is such an awesome and pretty city. I loved it. If I had to live in a big city, Boston would for sure be it.
