Well, after that exciting 4th of July night, after which we tumbled out of the subway and into bed well after midnight, we slept in. Until 9am, at which time Housekeeping knocked on our door. What?! We were too shocked to respond… I mean what hotel would send Housekeeping around at 9 in the morning ever, let alone the morning after a holiday?! Well, it was pretty much time to get up anyway. We had a full day of Freedom Trail ahead of us.
So the Freedom Trail in Boston is: Follow the Red Brick Road along the Boston streets to visit historic landmarks! I’m serious, it is a two-brick wide red line, if it’s not in bricks then it’s in red paint on the concrete. It is a very handy way to find your way around central Boston. We visited the Park Street Church and the graveyard and the King’s Chapel graveyard (oh I was so excited about 2 graveyards in a row, especially with their beautiful headstones which tended to be a skull-shaped face between wings) and King’s Chapel and the Old State House, where we got to have a nifty little tour that explains exactly what probably happened during the Boston Massacre. We did get a little distracted on the way… once we stopped at a used bookstore where I bought 3 or 4 books for under $10, and then by the time we got to Faneuil Hall, it was closed for the day and Quincy Market was just across, and in the paved courtyard between, there was a street show going on – basically a guy who could climb a ladder without propping it against anything. Pretty neat! Then I really wanted to see Quincy Market so we walked through the ground-level floor. It’s really neat. You have to go to one such to understand, but it’s a lot of little shops selling everything from seafood to chocolate to candles under a roof, but it feels kind of like an open-air market, with a roof. So when we saw the ice cream and frozen yogurt, we decided we should get some, since we didn’t feel like taking time out for supper yet. Oh my goodness, I could get bogged down in all these boring details, let me move on… So since the rest of the sites along the Freedom Trail were closed for the day, we walked back and walked around the parks and saw the Ducks and fed the ducks in the pond – I did that is, peanut butter crackers, I had 7 little ducklings trading water right next to the edge of the pond to get the crumbs. Such fun! :)
And then let’s see… we walked around for a while looking for supper, then we finally, at the end of our footlife, stumbled into Uburger and got ourselves burgers, and went home and plopped into bed- I mean went back to the hotel and plopped.
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