a soggy sunday

Well I hear it is snowing back home, however it is rainy here. You don't have to shovel rain, as Josh reminds me.

We have been busy, being tourists. We are also in our second hotel room, in the first hotel we are staying at. The first room had problems with the tv, so they moved us. This new room does not have a view of the Garden parking lot. The first room did, we were able to spy on the Celtics and Bruins players arriving before their games.

On Saturday we went to the Sam Adams Brewery, via a quick trip on the T. What a nice little tour, there was free beer. It was like a tailgating Saturday, beer at 11:50am. We sampled 3 different kinds. The Sam Adam Lager, which is the standard brew, the Sam Adams Winter Lager, which was tasty, and we were priveledged enough to taste a beer contest winner flavor. It was a honey, all spice mix, not my favorite.

After we got buzzed, we thought we would go to Cheers and find out who really knew our name....or get some lunch. It was tasty stuff, we had to have some more beer there too. Then we continued our toursity day. We made our way to the cemetary where Sam Adams and Mother Goose are buried. Then went to Quincy Market to do some shopping and people watching.

We ended the day by heading to the North End of Boston, a heavily Italian populted area, with lots of great restuarants. We toured through the Old North Church and the gift shop. We then were looking for a restuarant that we had eaten at before but it wasn't open, in fact it had changed names too. We ended up eating at Al Dente, and having some home made pasta, sooooo tasty.

It was getting cold so we made our way to a nearby Dunkin Donuts to get some coffee and then headed back to the room to warm up. I fell asleep, Josh wondered off later for some beer. When Josh returned and I woke up the room was about 80 degrees. We cou;dn't figure out how to control the temp. It was sooo hot.

Today we decided to go tour the New England Aquarium. Lets just say the admission price was a little steep for the exhibits that were available. Josh says he was underwhelmed.

We then walked over to Quincy Market to grab some sort of snack. Lucky for us we found bacon wrapped scallops, oh so tasty!!!!!! They also served them with home made fries, can you say oily goodness!!! After that we went to check out Fanueil Hall. There is so much history in Boston.

Now we are going to hit the Boston Beer Works (they make their own beers) and watch the Patriots football game.

Hope all are well back home, and no one pulls a muscle scooping snow. HA HA HA