Boston, Day 1

We made it to Boston! After parting with the kids at the airport (this part was very hard for me), we sat for two hours on the airplane, wondering if this is how people travel without children. Very strange. Nobody needed to go to the bathroom, nobody spilled their Sprite and needed three calls to the steward to get enough napkins to clean it up. Amazing. We felt almost lazy.

But, I'm getting ahead of myself. We've been planning a trip to Boston for a few months, and we're thrilled to actually be here. We both have fond memories of Boston, having been here twice in undergrad, the second time married and pregnant with Carver. This time, we're staying downtown, right next to Quincy Market, and will be eating in restaurants, instead of PB & J packed in the backpack for the day.

Today was simple, getting to Boston, navigating from the airport to our hotel on the T, and then wandering around Boston's Italian north end, which has tons of cool historic stuff, as well as amazing bakeries. We had a yummy dinner at an Italian hole-in-the-wall highly recommended by yelp.com, and now we're chilling in the hotel room.

Here's the Green Dragon Tavern, about 4 blocks from our hotel, where Paul Revere hung out with cronies in pre-revolutionary days.



Faneuil Hall is about 2 blocks from our hotel, so that was one of the things that we checked out briefly today before dinner.


And this is the top of our hotel! It's a historic building, which used to be the customs house for incoming ships--very cool. There's an observation deck up at the top which we need to check out--hopefully that will be soon.


Tomorrow it's sleeping in, a bakery for breakfast and then off to Lexington and Concord for the day!