This morning Nick and
I walked down to a Starbucks and got drinks and breakfast for us all. We ate in the room then drove to Boston. Our first destination was the Harvard campus. We drove by Harvard Square but didn’t get out
because of course there’s no place to park.
Nick made several comments about how all the kids there were snowflakes as we drove around the campus and
joked about the bad investment all these people were making. I didn’t realize that Harvard was founded in
1636. That’s hard to believe. Then we
drove by MIT, then along the Charles River to the Museum of Science. You can park at the museum and get on a duck
(DUKW) boat. We had a little bit of time
before our tour started at 12 so we grabbed lunch inside the museum and the
café looked out onto the river, facing the Longfellow Bridge.
We took a tour from 12-1:15 and it was pretty interesting
but our guide was a little over the top and annoying. But overall, I’m glad we did it.
From there we drove to the airport Hilton and it was a
mess. I paid for a corner room but the
guy didn’t give us one because he “upgraded” us to executive floor which
included a free continental breakfast. Hmmm…suspicious -especially since he
didn’t tell me about the upgrade until after I came back downstairs and asked
where my corner room was.
Oh well. We did have
a nice view of Boston… we got cleaned up then took the hotel shuttle to the
Airport Blue Line Station and the kids enjoyed their first subway experience.
It was so hot on the train. We had to switch to the Green Line at the
Government Center stop then we got off at the Kenmore Street Station. Then we walked and SAW IT – FENWAY with the
lights on.
While we were on the subway
it started raining but when we got off the subway, it had stopped. But as we approached the ballpark, it started
up again. So we went on inside and
grabbed some food then took our seats, which happened to be covered! There’s not a lot of covered seats so we got
pretty lucky.
The food was good and we got to sit through a great storm –
thunder, lightning, wind, all of it. We
were on the very back row of the bottom section so we could turn around and see
the city. It poured and the game was
maybe 5 minutes delayed. The rain
stopped and it was a perfect night.
The Sox played the Rays and were down three runs after the
top of the first inning but ended up winning the game. Nick talked to a nice guy from Louisiana
sitting next to him and he gave Grant a little bag of Fenway dirt. And the accents were awesome. Every time the Sox scored they played Irish
music that everyone clapped along to and in between the innings they played
Aretha Franklin songs because she died yesterday morning.
And of course, we didn’t leave until after the middle of the
8th inning when they play Sweet Caroline – it was awesome. I’d always thought it was played during the 7th
inning stretch but it’s actually the 8th inning stretch. And dumb me, I thought the Green Monster was
a center field wall but it’s really the left field wall.
We left as soon as Sweet Caroline ended and got turned
around walking to the subway station so we didn’t dodge any of the crowd – IT
WAS CROWDED and taking the stairs down into the station, I felt the muggiest
air I’ve literally ever felt. We managed
to make it back without incident but it was late and the kids were
exhausted.
Luckily the beds are comfortable and Nick and I got to mark
something off our bucket list today – FENWAY – check!
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