Bahston!

This weekend, I traveled down to Boston to see some of the sights. It worked out that some friends I hadn’t seen in a while were going to be in the area, so it was a great time to meet up!

We intended to take a train into the great city, to avoid having to drive its crazy streets, but we managed to miss the train by minutes (hey, this is what makes fun memories later on, right?), so we had to drive in anyway. Thankfully one of my friends lives in MA and has driven into Boston several times, so she was our excellent (if somewhat crazy) driver. We drove to the main station and hopped onto the ‘T’, the city’s subway system. There’s a famous song about it by the Kingston Trio, called Charlie and the MTA:

In honor of the song, the tickets are called Charlie Tickets:

We went to Chinatown to get some lunch, which was good, and then we headed to the North End of Boston, which is also home to ‘little Italy’, as well as the Old North Church, and Paul Revere:

It is really neat to be standing where so much history took place. We didn’t explore a quarter of what was there, due to time constraints, so I’ll just have to go back again. It’s an amazing town.

One of my other friends that came along is of Italian heritage, and she insisted I try a Cannoli, which is a pastry made with a ricotta cheese based filling. It was really good, and really rich.

We went down to the waterfront to see the USS Constitution, but alas, we were too late to take a tour. Still, it was neat to see it.

We then decided to go to Harvard, and walk around that campus.

And, since we were all Car Talk fans, we searched for their office in Harvard Square:

There are always random performers in college towns, it seems:

All in all it was quite a fun day. All the more so because I was able to share it with some friends.

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