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Friday, October 31, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Emily's Visit to Boston
After much planning and sorting out a weekend that worked out for both of us, my friend Emily finally made it out to Boston to visit.
Here are the highlights of our whirlwind weekend:
Em got in Friday afternoon and of course things at work were "falling apart" so I didnt get to leave the office as early as I would have liked. Em was a trooper about it though. She made it to the apartment on the T and helped herself to the couch and some VH1 marathon of 2 guys teaching other guys how to become pimps. I dont know....I didnt watch, you'll have to ask her.
We spent some time catching up and then headed out to Franklin Cafe in the South End for dinner. Good thing we got there early (at like 6pm) because the place was tiny and by the time we left, it was packed. The food was great, the service was just so-so.
(Me at dinner)
After dinner, we wanted to go find some cupcakes so we started off towards Sweet Cupcakes. We later found out that they were closing soon and that they only had a few cupcakes left...and only cappuccino flavored ones. We decided to pass and walked over to Newbury instead. I remembered seeing a "Johnny Cupcakes" there.
A quick stop at the Apple Store to do some research (Thanks, Apple for the free internet) and we discovered that Johnny Cupcakes didnt actually sell cupcakes....but clothing instead. Bummer. Luckily, JP Licks was right around the corner.
So turns out that Johnny Cupcakes was having a "TShirt Release Party" of sorts that night. We walked by and saw kids lined up several blocks deep....some with lawn chairs and tv's set up (some had been there for days) all there trying to get their hands on $65 limited edition tshirts. Interesting.
After that, we hopped in a cab and headed home. We had to get up early the next morning for our date with sticky buns at Flour Bakery and Newport.
(Yumm! Sticky buns! We didnt get pictures of our just as tasty breakfast sandwiches!)
Full after sticky buns, breakfast sandwiches and chocolate bread pudding to go, we walked over to Hertz and picked up our Trailblazer and were on our way to Newport, RI to check out the Seafood Festival and the Newport Mansions for the afternoon.
(Em at the Seafood Festival which should be more appropriately named Newport's Fried Food Festival. This picture was right before her string of bad purchases...gross lobster fritters and then a really hard caramel apple)
Lunch was a bust (except for the kettle corn) so we went to try our luck with the Mansions. We had just enough time left in the afternoon to see The Breakers. We bought our tickets and got in line for our hour tour of the once summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II.
(The house from the front)
(A view of the house from the grounds out back
(Me and Em at the back of the house)
(Pictures werent allowed inside, but here is a shot of the tiled roof of the "patio" in the back...so beautifully crafted)
Finishing up the tour, we walked out back and got onto the Cliff Walk. It was a pretty chilly day, so we didnt make it too far along the path. We did get to take a few pictures of the water and the houses that lined the coast though.
So long, Newport. We got back on the road and headed back into Boston (with a detour to the Dollar Store and to Walmart). Back in Boston, we bummed around in the apartment, got pizza and disappointingly stayed up to watch all of SNL (when Sara Palin made her guest appearance). The show itself was pretty bad...not a funny skit during the hour and an half we stayed up for to watch.
Sunday, more Flour Bakery and more STICKY BUNS! :)
Then we were off to catch the final day of the Head of the Charles. Another cold day, but we bundled up and found ourselves a nice hot baked potato for lunch...along with other goodies.
(A view of one of the races from a bridge above)
(One of the boat houses....Maybe this one is Harvard's???)
Here are the highlights of our whirlwind weekend:
Em got in Friday afternoon and of course things at work were "falling apart" so I didnt get to leave the office as early as I would have liked. Em was a trooper about it though. She made it to the apartment on the T and helped herself to the couch and some VH1 marathon of 2 guys teaching other guys how to become pimps. I dont know....I didnt watch, you'll have to ask her.
We spent some time catching up and then headed out to Franklin Cafe in the South End for dinner. Good thing we got there early (at like 6pm) because the place was tiny and by the time we left, it was packed. The food was great, the service was just so-so.
(Me at dinner)
After dinner, we wanted to go find some cupcakes so we started off towards Sweet Cupcakes. We later found out that they were closing soon and that they only had a few cupcakes left...and only cappuccino flavored ones. We decided to pass and walked over to Newbury instead. I remembered seeing a "Johnny Cupcakes" there.
A quick stop at the Apple Store to do some research (Thanks, Apple for the free internet) and we discovered that Johnny Cupcakes didnt actually sell cupcakes....but clothing instead. Bummer. Luckily, JP Licks was right around the corner.
So turns out that Johnny Cupcakes was having a "TShirt Release Party" of sorts that night. We walked by and saw kids lined up several blocks deep....some with lawn chairs and tv's set up (some had been there for days) all there trying to get their hands on $65 limited edition tshirts. Interesting.
After that, we hopped in a cab and headed home. We had to get up early the next morning for our date with sticky buns at Flour Bakery and Newport.
(Yumm! Sticky buns! We didnt get pictures of our just as tasty breakfast sandwiches!)
Full after sticky buns, breakfast sandwiches and chocolate bread pudding to go, we walked over to Hertz and picked up our Trailblazer and were on our way to Newport, RI to check out the Seafood Festival and the Newport Mansions for the afternoon.
(Em at the Seafood Festival which should be more appropriately named Newport's Fried Food Festival. This picture was right before her string of bad purchases...gross lobster fritters and then a really hard caramel apple)
Lunch was a bust (except for the kettle corn) so we went to try our luck with the Mansions. We had just enough time left in the afternoon to see The Breakers. We bought our tickets and got in line for our hour tour of the once summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II.
(The house from the front)
(A view of the house from the grounds out back
(Me and Em at the back of the house)
(Pictures werent allowed inside, but here is a shot of the tiled roof of the "patio" in the back...so beautifully crafted)
Finishing up the tour, we walked out back and got onto the Cliff Walk. It was a pretty chilly day, so we didnt make it too far along the path. We did get to take a few pictures of the water and the houses that lined the coast though.
So long, Newport. We got back on the road and headed back into Boston (with a detour to the Dollar Store and to Walmart). Back in Boston, we bummed around in the apartment, got pizza and disappointingly stayed up to watch all of SNL (when Sara Palin made her guest appearance). The show itself was pretty bad...not a funny skit during the hour and an half we stayed up for to watch.
Sunday, more Flour Bakery and more STICKY BUNS! :)
Then we were off to catch the final day of the Head of the Charles. Another cold day, but we bundled up and found ourselves a nice hot baked potato for lunch...along with other goodies.
(Us with our Kashi goodie bags...they really make you work for the free stuff here. It really was pretty chilly, its not like we were the only 2 really bundled up...honest)
(A view of one of the races from a bridge above)
(One of the boat houses....Maybe this one is Harvard's???)
It got pretty cold and closer to Emily's flight time, so we called it a day and went back to the apartment to get her all packed up for the aiport.
All in all, a fun weekend hanging out with Em! Always a blast and will have to plan another weekend soon!
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