Freedom Trail

We woke up to reasonably dry and warm (but not too hot!) weather.

After checking on our yacht...

Kirk and our array of boats. Yesss...we own all of these...

We decided to walk The Freedom Trail.

The Freedom Trail is marked with a red line. Here's where we started. You just follow the line and it takes you to a ton of the Revolutionary war historical sites and other historical places in Boston. (Cathy had "Follow the Yellow Brick Road...Follow the Yellow Brick Road...running through her head most of the day.)

But before we really got started, we were distracted by this park, and the art in it! There were a bunch of artists selling various types of art.

Plus this cool statue at the park.

We started at the USS Constitution Museum. (It was free!) Note Kirk in the lower left hand corner, following the red line. We were not allowed to take pictures in the Museum, but you can read all about it here. Cathy was most impressed with how long it was in service. It is still there, handing out outside the museum!

You were able to go aboard this boat- The USS Cassin Young it was in service during WWII and other wars. It was so small! A claustrophobic person would have a hard time being a sailor.

Kirk modeling one of the guns on board.

We also saw this- shout out to Jeremy- a New Holland product!

Next stop: the Bunker Hill Monument.

We climbed all 294 steps and were rewarded with this view.

We had walked past a lot of those houses- they were SO cute. We can't even imagine what they cost, but we inherit somebody's vast fortune, we are so there.

While we were walking, we saw this pretty church and neat street lamp...check out the street name! Shout out to Melanie and Ben!

Here Cathy is in front of a St. Francis stature at the famous Old North Church. ("One if by land, two if by sea...") Strangely, we forgot to take a picture of the church. We were starving at this point and had finally hit the North end, where all the Italian food is.

We headed to Maurizio's, which looked cute and reasonably priced. It was hard to choose- we were surrounded by Italian restaurants.

It was hard to choose.

Should we have wine?

Yes. Yes we should. This is the house white- we drank a lot of house wines in Italy. We shared one glass- only lunchtime, plus we did not want to get dehydrated. It was pretty good!
The we shared a bowl of lobster sweet potato corn chowder. YUM.

And the bread with pepper infused oil that came with our meal. The oil was great- spicy enough that it added a small kick, but not *too* spicy. Cathy's going to try to figure out how to make it when they get home.

Cathy's lunch- it was in a Parmesan sauce. Very simple, very good.

Kirk's was really good- it was pasta with a meat sauce and meat balls of lamb and beef.

We were seated right in the window.

Next Stop: Faneuil Hall.

Kirk models the hall for you!

It was pretty inside, and impressive to think of all the history that had happened there.

A view from the door.

Cool clock.

GOOD NEWS! This store gots lobstahs!

Not far away was the Old State House.

See that balcony? That's where the Declaration of Independence was read to Boston.
We decided to go in a nearby open to door, only to find...

A subway station! View American history, then catch a train!

Here's a very old graveyard. Cathy has a fascination with graveyards, particularly very old ones.

A gravestone.

We did not even scratch the surface of all that we could have done- we plan to go back and go in a few more places. For now, we had to go back to the hotel, because...

...we were meeting old friends! Nakita and I met when we were both shelvers at the UNC Michener Library.
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”-St. Augestine

She now lives in Rhode Island and evaluates people's psychiatric needs in an emergency room. We ate at the Cheesecake Factory and took a walk through Harvard square. We'll be seeing her again on Thursday...stay tuned to see what awesome thing we're going to do! In the meantime, we decided to....

Call it a day- the harbor near our hotel.