Up and at them early this morning for the drive into Boston. It started of as a fairly nice drive until we were about half an hour outside of the city and then the traffic started moving at a snails pace. We figured there had been some kind of accident so we stopped at the toll road plaza for dunkin donuts (any excuse), but when we continued on there was no accident, just traffic – I guess all the big cities are the same. The drive into the city itself wasn’t too bad even though the roads and the drivers there are horrendous, and we found a parking garage that only charged us $25.00 for the day; that’s a whole $7.00 cheaper than we were expecting. Since we didn’t have a whole lot of time to spend there we decided to take a trolley tour and get an overview and some history which was fun and well worth doing. The bus drivers are amazing the way they maneuver those vehicles around the narrow streets, a little crazy but amazing. We rode all around Boston and into Cambridge; the area is very beautiful with all the parks and old buildings but there are just way too many people and too much traffic to see it in a day. Fortunately we’ll probably be back in a few weeks with Ma and Pa. We did get to take a boat tour and since it was a beautiful sunny day we got to cool down and view Boston from out in the harbour. We also visited the USS Constitution, more lovingly known as Old Ironsides, and got to walk around the deck area; she is an amazing boat, with sides that are three feet thick, but she looks more like a pirate ship than a Navy boat. She was very cool though and in excellent condition.
After finishing the trolley tour we headed home, Mike and I were both a little peeved when after having been made to pay to get into the city early in the day we then had to pay to get out off the city too – someone is taking the Mickey here.
I’m glad we got to visit Boston, and we will go back for another visit but I think I’ve kinda had my fill of big east coast cities for awhile, the little villages and towns are so much more fun and individual. After a visit to NYC I think I’ll be done till at least next year.

Mike: Boston, lots of history, lots of traffic! Ug! Man better off walking!