Boston 2

We arrived back in Boston and Suzanne drove us to her friends, Tammy & Francisco’s house for dinner.  It was about a 40 minute drive which gave us the opportunity to see more of the countryside.  Suzanne took a car load of food including a hugh Boston Cream Pie, which is actually more like a sponge cake than a pie but really yummy.

Francisco took Ian for a drive in his beautiful Porsche.  We had a great bar-b-que with hugh steaks and plenty of food and wine. (to much)  They have 2 young children and we were given a violin recital.  We had a great time and talked for hours so we didn’t get home until after 1.30am. 

The next day we saw some reenactments from the 1812 war with Britain.  We also saw them marching down the streets they must have been really hot as it was a bit of a heat wave here.

Then we went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard to see the USS Constitution.  We went on board and below deck.  It was very small to house 400 people. 

We also watched a re-enactment of firing the cannons.   

From there we walked back across the bridge which gave us a chance to see down the river and the number of ships and naval vessels.  It was a busy day on the water as the tall ships were coming in.   

We walked further to have lunch at Legal Seafood.  We had more chowder and the best lobster roll we have tried so far. 

Further around we came across the Boston Tea Party Museum which has a re-enactment of the night leading up to and throwing the tea overboard. 

We came across someone offering a $15 boat trip out to see the tall ships come in.  We thought it would be a good idea so headed down to the boat which resembled the African Queen.  Once underway we were told the sides were too low to go into the water where we could see the boats.   Instead we headed towards where we would see them if we went out further and got a commentary on what we couldn’t see.  Meanwhile, he was right, the sides were to low and I got drenched from the water coming in.  We had to laugh; we got what we paid for – a $15 boat ride.

That night we went to one of Suzanne’s favourite restaurants, Olives to meet some more of her friends.  It was really nice to meet them but unfortunately the restaurant had been renovated and the room we were in was quite small and with the noise of the other diners it was way too noisy to hear ourselves speak, so that was a little disappointing that we didn't get the opportunity to get to know them.