Boston - Day 4

Beautiful Boston. It's a great walking city...if you're used to walking at least 3 miles a day...which is what we did today. My feet are screaming tonite, but the day was worth it.


Here we are waiting to go on the Duck Tour which is a land and water tour in WWII amphibious vehicles called Ducks. It was really great...but cold and windy. I think I am used to Florida!! (dang)


Here are the Ducks...not ours, though (ours was black and had 4 open seats in the back....quess who sat there amid the wind and cold?!)






Here's a little tidbit...for those of you who watch Boston Legal. Here is the building that they use for the exteriors of their office building.


We took a walk thru Boston Commons, which is the oldest public park in the US. And it's huge. Unfortunately, there are quite a bit of homeless people there.
The squirrels here are really friendly and will come right up to your hand if you offer then something to eat. This one just came over a sat at Wes' feet.





While walking along, we saw this sign on the side of a building. I had forgotten that Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston. Interesting.







So we are walking past a small park and there is a guy there taking pics of his kids on a statue of a donkey. So my funny sister turns around and says, Oh Wes...you have GOT to do that!" So the guy turns around and says, "Yeah, Wes, do it!" Well, my husband doesn't need too much of a push to do anything so he got on the donkey statue!!! Afterwards the guy looks at him and says, "Ok, I can go home now cause I have definately seen everything!" We all had a laugh over that one.






Once we got him off his ass (LOL)...we started the 2 1/2 miles walk of the Freedom Trail. We made it almost all the way to the end of the trail but I really couldn't walk across a bridge (and not a small one) to cross the Charles River to get to the next cemetery across the river. So we stopped for dinner at a great Italian restaurant on the North End then headed back to the hotel.

Auntie & Uncle John are leaving tomorrow after breakfast and then we are heading to see the USS Constitution and then on to Salem. Should be fun. We have lots more pics of the Freedom Trail, but I am fighting at 11:53 pm to stay awake....so I will post them tomorrow and give everyone the address for viewing. Have a great day tomorrow!!