We had a nice long weekend and am looking forward to Danny's class being over and hanging out in Washington for two weeks. This is still a vacation for me, but it is much more enjoyable when Danny isn't busy. We had a good weekend... at least I did. If you talk to him all you'll hear is complaining.
On Friday he was done at about 1 o'clock. We headed to Mass. to visit Battleship Cove. That is where the battleship Massachusetts is moored. There are also other ships there, but we didn't have much time til they closed so we mainly checked out the Massachusetts.
On Saturday we took the Newport tour. We rode a trolley bus around town and got a tour, mainly that focused on the houses. Toward the end we took a tour of The Breakers which is the largest mansion in Newport and was the summer home of the Vanderbilts. It was huge and very beautiful. Its hard to imagine anyone living in a house that big. The downside was that our tourguide had no personality and sounded like she was reading from a textbook. Overall, I think the tour was overpriced but it was fun to see Newport. Its definitely the rich, hoity-toity neighborhood of Rhode Island.
Sunday we drove up to Boston. Danny wanted to go on the Freedom walk, which is a "trail" through Boston that follows important historical landmarks. He really wanted to go to the Constitution, but paid to go on a guided tour instead which didn't take us nearly far enough. He was very disappointed that he didn't get to see it. We tried to drive by later, but got lost at about midnight. Maybe someday he'll want to go back and see it, but for now he claims he'll never go back to Boston because the people were so rude. Everyone that we actually talked to was nice, but there is an idea of everyone for themselves. Its the jaywalking capital of the country and the taxi drivers (and just about everyone else behind the wheel) are very impatient. Not a good combination.
We me up with Hannah and her fiance, Anthony - who is student at MIT, for dinner. I think Danny's feelings about Boston are partially because Hannah talked about how rude Bostonians are. Otherwise I don't think he would have noticed. Either way, I don't think I'd go out of my way to go back, but it was an okay city. It definitely had more history than I have ever seen in a city.
Yesterday we stayed in bed until noon because we didn't get home until about 2 am. We just did shopping and stuff yesterday. Nothing fancy. And we ordered pizza for dinner. Then Danny had to stay up and watch the first half of the Seahawks on Monday night football.
This week may be hard for Danny, but we'll be ready to head to Seattle by the end of the week.
sounds like fun
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Well, it sounds like you got to see a lot of the area. I've never been to Boston. It would be fun to see all those historic sites.
ReplyDeleteThe daughter of our Chinese restaurant family in Raymond is at MIT also. She went last year at age 17; she is brilliant... they sought her out with scholarships. We've known her since she was four years old; she and Caitlin used to play together when we were at the restaurant.