A DAY IN BOSTON

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Fortified and full from a great breakfast we headed for the train station. The ride into Boston from Woburn (twelve miles) took about twenty-five minutes with a few stops along the way. We enjoyed seeing the fall foliage and the few small towns we passed through. The trains last stop, where we got off, was in downtown Boston right at Boston Garden where their famous basketball team plays.

We took the trolley tour called City View which takes an hour and makes nine stops. We made an entire day of it by getting off at each stop and walking the area. We walked through the beautiful Public Garden, Boston Commons, past the old, original Cheers and the many,many sites along the Freedom Trail. We spent much of our time at the Quincy Market, Fanuel Hall area. We ate lunch at the wonderful Union Oyster House. One of the high lights of our walking tour was the Old North Church.We walked and walked and then walked some more. When we were on our "last leg" we stopped at the famous Mikes Pastry Shop and sat down to eat canolis. They were delicious. We had never had canolis before. We had only heard them talked about on Everybody Loves Raymond.

We rode the train back to our home away from home--The Marriott Residence Inn in Woburn where we enjoyed a splendid dinner.

When it was time to go to bed nobody had to rock us to sleep. We went to sleep with smiles on our faces and slept like babies (Happy babies).