Boston or Bust!
Our second day was spent in Boston. The weather was out of its nasty rainy funk and it was beautiful out. Perfect day for doing the tourist thing in the City of Boston. Our hotel was about 40 minutes away and I was again stressing about Gabriel and the car. Overall this leg of the trip went well. We didn't hit any traffic and were able to get to our parking garage without much of a problem.
The parking garage was right next to Faneuil Hall. We went in and walked around the museum. Leah enjoyed looking at the uniforms from the American Revolutionary War and other memorabilia from their collection.
We walked from Faneuil Hall to the New England Aquarium. Leah was looking forward to seeing the variety of penguins.
We also saw one of the 3D movies, Sharks 3D at the IMAX Theater. Louis tolerated the movie for about 20 minutes or so and I left with him to play outsid while Leah enjoyed it in its entirety.
We grabbed a quick snack and headed back to the Faneuil Hall Marketplace to start off our journey on the Freedom Trail.
The Rings Fountain is a lot of fun. I hope we can be back in Boston during the Summer and fully enjoy it.
Didn't stop Leah from running through it, or me for that matter. She lucked out and didn't get wet. I was soaked.
Matt running through with Louis
They made it without a single drop on them
We stopped to watch a street performer outside Faneuil Hall.
We followed the Freedom trail towards Boston Common and the Public Garden. I'd say right around this point we were all losing a bit of steam and on the verge of crankiness.
I wasn't kidding when I've said our Graco stroller is a work horse. We spent the entire day and part of the evening in Boston. We had everything we could possibly need for the kids with us. We also had our umbrella stroller for Louis.
Nothing like a stop at the playground in Boston Common (America's first park) let the kids out to get everyone back on track.
At the Public Garden (First public botanical garden) at the Make Way for Ducklings bronze sculpture. The book Make Way for Ducklings is the official children's book for Massachusetts. It takes place in Boston Common.
We left the Public Garden and instead of heading back the way we came I decided we'd back a different way. I wanted to head through Chinatown and then walk back. I should have known better. Chinatown- no matter is what city? ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS gets me turned around. It's happened in NYC (not anymore after years of learning the ins & outs), San Francisco (not even going to get into that fiasco), Portland, Houston, Toronto, Vancouver and Detroit. Clearly I need to learn to read Chinese. Any dialect will do.
We had no shortage of maps but the streets split a few times and follow the same names in 3 different directions. 20 minutes of wandering around I finally figured out where we were and how to get back. Weren't out of sorts for long but it was enough to put everyone into a cranky mood. We were hungry mostly and tired.
Needless to say we were all happy to get back to Faneuil Hall and to visit the food stalls at the Quincy Market. There are so many choices it was hard to decide. I ended up with an absolutely delicious bowl of New Englad Clam Chowder (typical I know) and Leah & Matt got some of the best tasting mac n cheese. Leah had chicken and I think Matt had buffalo chicken. They had a lobster mac n cheese I am STILL thinking about. Definite must have. I also had a Sam Adams on tap which hit the spot.
Overall I'd say we had a great time in Boston. We managed to see a lot of the sites and the kids had a great time. We were all ready to crash when we made it back to the hotel.
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