Today was the last full day of the Boston trip. The plan was to walk the Freedom Trail and then go over to the ocean/South Boston area, and that's basically what happened. First we went to Santarpio's though, since it was right by the airport stop. We were too early, so we wandered around E. Boston some. We went into an Italian grocery/deli, where everybody but me got tiny drinks (coke, pear nectar, and some pink thing that turned out to be really bitter & alcoholic). We walked down to Maverick T stop looking for a place I'd eaten Colombian patties before. We didn't find the Colombian place but we did find a mangy possum on a stoop; an old lady got nervous and told us to call 911, then a younger lady called the vet. We left & made it back to Santarpio's at just the right time. The waiter was a classic scratchy old italian, telling us what we wanted and what not to want and all . . . "come back tomorrow, ask XXXX, he knows everything." The pizza was amazingly delicious - I think I liked the cheese best, though the waiter told me the crust was most important. We got a meat pizza and a green peppers pizza; some of it left with us but none of it survived long. We took the green line into the city, walked over to the Commons, and began the Freedom Trail at the State House. The State House was way more impressive than I realized - tons of elaborate marble, flags, murals. They were set up for a police conference which I learned the next day had to do with cutting back funding for policing of juveniles. We went through Quincy Market/Faneuil Hall, where Nathan got a clam chowder fix, Mom got a smoothie (I think), and Chara & I had some gelatto. We then went to the graveyard of Paul Revere, John Hancock, & friends, a meeting house where the Tea Party had been debated, . . . a bunch of places. We passed Paul Revere's house, went through an old plaza with a statue of Revere (where I saw my second and third of five law students I'd see that day), then listened to some history from the pews of Old North Church. We climbed the hill to another cemetery, then went down and crossed a drawbridge to Charlestown. We passed an old ice factory warehouse and Chara & Nathan posed in front of the USS Constitution while Mom found a bathroom. The old dry dock I wanted to show everybody was full of water, so we hurried on up through Charlestown to Bunker Hill. The monument was higher than I remembered, but everybody made it up & took pictures before we went down the hill, through the historic neighborhood, and hurried over to Bunker Hill Community College's T stop. From there Chara went back to the hotel/airport, while Mom, Nathan, & I went up to Harvard to look for a hoodie and a Bank of America. We got off at Central Square and hiked up to Harvard. We didn't find a thick/inexpensive enough hoodie, but we did find a BoA. We then took the bus to the Dunkin Donuts with chocolate filled doughnuts, where we waited for Katie. She drove us to Super88, where we ate mainly Korean food, then got a ride to my apartment to regroup. At about dark, we took the T to S. Boston, where we walked along the waterfront (I don't know that "beach" is appropriate), then up through the neighborhoods & back up to the T. We headed back to the Marriott late and tired. It was a pretty good day.
I was running errands up and down the elevator and liked the look of this mirror. Nathan met me by it eventually.
Mangy, terrified South Boston oppossum.
Santarpio's is delicious. It took me way too long to get there.
Granary Burial Grounds, downtown on the Freedom Trail.
Nathan being Paul Revere by Paul Revere.
"Stand in Opposition" plaque by the old City Hall.
Irish potato famine statue near an old Tea Party meeting house.
Mom & Chara buying My the "perfect present" in the shadow of the balcony from which the Declaration of Independence was first read to Boston. The nuts were really good!
Faneuil Hall.
Nathan getting clam chowder. Maybe this'll teach me not to take so many photos.
Bike skate chocolate cake.
Paul Revere statue.
the U.S.S. Constitution. And pirates.
Ad by the Constitution.
Nathan in the Bunker Hill Monument.
Chara leaving the Monument.
Bunker Hill Monument.
Statue in front of the Monument. Nathan keeps dying.
Adios, Chara. Pedestrian bridge to Bunker Hill Community College.
Nathan at Super88, with Nantucket Nectars.
