Friday night, I met my parents at the Boston airport and we headed back to the apartment. We got back around 10:30pm so we just hung out and watched tv while they unpacked and checked out the apartment.
Saturday morning, we woke up, got ready and headed out for a day in Boston. The weather was great for walking and the forcast didn't call for rain until the late afternoon (luckily, it never rained Saturday). We started our day out with a walk from the apartment to Faneuil Hall for breakfast. Dad got the usual, pancakes. Mom found an egg sandwich on a bagel. The pizza place wasn't open yet, so I settled on a bacon and egg sandwich on toast with hashbrowns.
After breakfast, we headed across the street to catch a trolley tour of Boston (the same tour company where we took a tour of Savannah, GA). We got on at stop one (Faneuil Hall), rode through the North End and got off at Stop 3 and visited the USS Constitution and the USS Cassin Young where we showed up right on time for a 45 minute guided tour of the destroyer.
In front of the USS Constitution
Ammo loading station on the USS Cassin Young
After viewing the ships, we got back on the trolley and headed over to Boston Common where we rode on the Swan Boats.
We took the trolley a few more stops and got off at the Prudential Center to grab lunch before getting back on the tour to take us to Cambridge. Once in Cambridge, we took the T (subway) 2 stops to Harvard Square to check out Harvard's campus.
After walking around the school for a bit, we stopped to get some ice cream at JP Licks before heading back to catch the trolley.
Once back on the tour, we finished the route and ended up back where we started at Faneuil Hall just in time to start thinking about dinner spots. We walked over to the Union Oyster House and checked out the menu. No one was really hungry yet so we decided to walk around a bit and ended up going to CVS to get my mom some new reading glasses. Afterwards, we decided on going to Anthony's Pier 4 since it was closer to the apartment. Dinner turned out to be just so-so which was pretty disappointing since so many people had given that place a good review. The food was just average but the service was just so incredibly slow. It did have a good view of the water though. In the end, we all decided that it wasn't a place that we'd go back to. (Although apparently the leftover halibut made an excellent breakfast Monday morning!)
Sunday morning, we headed back to the airport to pick up our rental car. We decided that we'd go check out Maine and find some lobster since we didnt end up ordering any Saturday night.
Ogunquit, Maine was pretty packed with people but we made our way to check out a lighthouse and some great views. We all got lobsters for lunch and then found some more homemade ice cream for dessert.
Saying "bye" to Maine, we headed back to return the car in Boston. We made a quick stop at a mall along the way to pick up a few things and get some coffee/snacks. Once back in the apartment, we all relaxed at home, ordered some Chinese food (again just so-so), and watched the news of Gustav making it's way to land.
Monday morning was mostly just cleaning up and getting ready to head back home to Florida. What a quick weekend...it all went back so fast! Hope you guys can come back again soon!
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