Boston & Providence (2)

The weather on Tuesday morning promised a beautiful day -- clear and cool. We walked to the Lechmere station and took the T to Boston Common to the start of the Freedom Trail. The Common was busy with tourists and guides in period dress. It was a work day, so the Trail, especially through the downtown area, was busy with regular working people as well. There are several old (very old by U.S. standards) graveyards early on the trail. We were intrigued by the skull with wings motif and the dancing skeletons that were present on many of the headstones. Pictures of the headstones and other sights from our trip can be seen here on my Picasa web album.

We stopped for an early lunch at a Sushi place in the business district of Boston. Abbie IV and Frank both got sushi; I got udann. We continued along the trail, enjoying all of the historical sites along the way. After walking over the bridge, we headed to the Naval Yard to take the tour of the Constitution. Our tour guide was from Crivitz, Wisconsin. He joined the Navy right out of high school, has been in for 10 years and been stationed in many foreign ports. We were only his second tour group and the photo I took of him and Abbie IV was only his third tourist photo. The Constitution tour was a real high point of the Freedom Trail for us.

We walked the Trail through Charlestown, up to Bunker Hill where Abbie climbed to the top of the monument. I thought this was a particularly pretty part of the Trail and enjoyed the neighborhood and the monuments along this part very much. We headed back the Trail to Boston and the Union Oyster House where we ate a couple of seafood dinners and Frank and I had a couple of beers.

We found a T station and went back to Cambridge and the hotel where we all put our feet up for a couple of hours; then went out for a late stroll. Then to bed.