Boston

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We stayed at the Hilton in the Financial District. Sounds perfect for an accounting person :-), but really, it was to be near the harbor. Isn't this headboard spectacular for stitching at night?? The story is a little different when I laid down to read, accidentally glancing straight up, "My retinas! My retinas!"


We ate dinner Thursday night in one of the few restaurants in the Financial District open for dinner, Mr. Dooley's Boston Tavern. It's a nice Irish pub, where I had Mexican quesadillas. Delish.


We had breakfast at Panera's and this was the view from our window seat. We walked over to the harbor right after breakfast.

I just had to take another photograph from the other side - that flag was huge!

We wandered around looking at stuff. I picked up a bunch of brochures that we can peruse and plan for another day in Boston during the week. It's only an hour away from York Beach, Maine, where we're staying.

We checked out the private yachts. I can't remember if it was this one or another one that was from The Caymans. La-de-dah.

And we ogled how the rich people live, pulling their boats (yachts?) right up to the door of their luxury condominiums. (Wikipedia tells me that yachts are typically 40' and larger.)

We will definitely hit up the Aquarium on our day in Boston.

I was impressed with how nice the walk is along the Harbor and now nice the seating is! I mean, maybe not super comfy but definitely durable and impressive.

The architecture is so amazing! This is where I always do what I like to call my Slack-Jawed Yokel impression for Steve, "Go-oolly, Vern - look at all them tall buildings they got around here." Nope, that never gets old.

We headed back to the hotel for one last pee break (TMI?) and checked out at noon. We then hit the road for Maine.

Note to my family: Driving from Boston to Maine, then back to a store at night, I was prompted to sing the State Line Song NINE times in one day. C'mon, that has to be a record, right? And I'm proud to report that Steve sings along now too. He doesn't punch the Hey quite properly but we can work on that.

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