Saturday, September 12, 2009

Boston with Nicole


I was flying s trip which included a long overnight in Boston. I asked Nicole if she wanted to come with me and she said she would love to. Boston is one of my favorite cities to visit. It is rich in history. She can fly free and there were plenty of seats or so it seemed until the weather came into Boston and flights started getting delayed. My flight filled up and there were only 3 seats left and she was 3 on the list. She got on and I was thrilled until a passenger could not get their seat as the agent had put 2 people in the same seat. You guessed it they had to pull Nicole off the flight. We were heart broken, but there was another flight. It ran late as well and she did not get into Boston until midnight. I picked her up and we went to sleep to be woken up at 430 by fire alarms and sirens. Our hotel alarms were going off and we had to evacuate the building. A story in its self. Turned out there was not a fire and the firemen gave us the ok to go back in after 20 minutes standing outside in the rain. You could not believe what we saw people wearing. The next day was great and we had a wonderful day touring the city. Here are some great pictures of our day.


Our Hotel

On the Trolley in Boston. It was sprinkling today so we took a tour of the city by trolley. It was so much fun. We saw so many cool places. Our tour guide was a retired history teacher and taught us so much about the history of the city.
This was Kings cemetery. Paul Revere was buried here as well as John Hancock and the Franklin family.

This was at the start of the Freedom Trail. This statue was in front of the State House.

This is the home of Paul Revere. He raised 16 children in this home. He had 8 children from his first wife who died. He remarried and had 8 more. Wow! I guess his second wife was very competitive.