A historic day in Boston

We got into Boston late and found a hotel in the downtown area on Priceline. That website has been very useful to us all trip. Andrew has used it to find every hotel so far except the one in New York. It has been a bit stressful at times since you bid on a room, and they may not accept your bid, but for the most part we have benefited from it. We've paid much less for rooms than listed on the hotels' websites.

Since Andrew and I have both been to Boston before, we didn’t have a lot that we wanted to do in the city. We were going to the do the Sam Adams Brewery tour, but with such limited time, we chose not to since it would have taken up our whole afternoon being outside the city. Instead, we decided to walk the Freedom Trail. We had both done it before, but “when in Rome”. We bought a map that has details of each stop along the way. While walking, I realized I did not remember Boston or the Freedom Trail as well as I thought.

The Massachusetts State House

The site of the first public school whose alumni include Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and Sam Adams.

Andrew as Sam Adams

Statue of Paul Revere behind us

For lunch, we stopped at the Ye Olde Union Oyster House, a restaurant recommended to Andrew for having the best clam chowder. 

Andrew enjoying a bowl of clam chowder and a Sam Adams.

The night before, we had read online about tours of Fenway Park and thought that would be a fun thing to do. After lunch, we rushed back to the car to drive to Fenway in order to catch the 3:00 tour. The Yankees jokes were already starting before the tour even began. When the tour guide asked what other teams people cheered for, a brave person admitted the Yankees (big Red Sox rival), to which the tour guide replied, "Don't worry, I'll talk slow so you can understand me."

The tour was very informative about the history of the Red Sox and Fenway Park. One of the reviews I had read online said the tour would take you on the field so you could touch the manually operated scoreboard. This was not true, or maybe they only do it on non-game days.

Fenway is the 3rd smallest stadium in the Major League seating only 40,000. Some of the seats are so close together, its difficult to walk down each row. They will never replace or add seats though since next year will be the stadium's 100th year and hopefully a historic landmark.

It's hard to see, but there is one red seat in the outfield. That seat represents the furthest homerun hit by a Red Sox player at Fenway. The homerun was hit by Ted Williams and actually hit a guy in the head who had fallen asleep!

All in all, the tour was fun. We even got to sit on the famous Green Monster!!

Andrew touching the Fisk Pole named for Carlton Fisk's famous homerun in game 6 of the 1975 World Series, which the Red Sox went on to lose in game 7.

I will post more pictures of Fenway from the game later.