T Family Boston Expedition

About a month ago, (yes, I'm behind :)) we got back from an awesome T-Family trip to Boston! We went there to visit Amber and Riley, and of course to be tourists and eat a lot of great food! We were there for 10 awesome days! We stayed in a rental house (there were 7 of us staying, so it was decided that a house to stay in would be more practical (and cheaper) than staying in a hotel for that long). It was awesome! It was built a long long time ago (Early 1900's at the least), but had been updated enough to make it cute and nice. It was a comfortable stay for sure! This play-by-play is mostly for our benefit as a journal to remember the things we were able to do in Boston!

Thursday:

 Flew to Boston!

-Dinner at the cool pizza place on the corner by our rental house

-Relaxed and decided what the plan was for the morrow!

Friday:

-Slept in

-Got up and headed to downtown Boston

-Lunch at University Pizza. (Mmmmmm)

Spent the afternoon at the Museum of Fine Arts. (This museum was awesome! They had all different kinds of art from all different kinds of cultures and eras. They also had real, original works by famous artists such as Monet, Picaso, and Van Gogh. We only spent about 4 hours there, but definitely could have spend a week there! There was tons and tons to see.)

Look deeply into the silver...

-Dinner at Canary Square

Saturday:

Headed downtown to pick up the rental car (Prudential Tower)

The Boston Temple!!! 

Fenway Park (mmm, delicious sausages!)

                      Red Sox game

-Grocery shopping

-Dinner at home

-Watching the Miami/Celtics game

Sunday:

-Visiting Amber and Riley's ward

Minute Man National Park

Concord (said "Conquered", ha ha) and Lexington

-Dinner at Luigi's Italian Restaurant

Ice-cream at Beford Farms

Cortney and his bird-poop shirt...

Walden Pond (site of Henry David Thoreau's cabin)

Boston College (where Riley goes to Law School)

-FHE at Amber and Riley's Apartment

Monday:

Driving to Salem (the drive along the bay was beautiful!)

 This one's for you, Jayne...(one time a long time ago when we went to girl's camp, we found a Southern Comfort bottle outside our tent. No one drank, don't worry. It was just funny :)  I guess you just had to be there?)

Witches Museum

Walking around Salem (oldest home in Salem)

Witch Dungeon Museum (theatrical presentation)

-Lunch at the dinky Salem Mall Food-court

Salem Burial Grounds

Pirates Museum and the Bunghole (inside Taylor family joke...)

 The ocean!

Dinner at a place by the sea (with the most delicious clam chowder I have EVER eaten!)

Beautiful drive home back to Boston

Tuesday:

-Travel to Plymouth

Family Pictures 

Pilgrim Museum 

Lunch at Eastside Bay (by The Cabbyshack)

Walking around Plymouth and the oldest road in America

Plymouth rock

-Cole's Hill

Oldest home in Plymouth

Monument to the Forefathers and the presentation of it

Exploration of the sweet ship, the Mayflower II

-Visiting the candy store and eating ice-cream

Burial Hill

-Drive home to Boston

-Dinner at home

Rainy Wednesday:

Cheer's Place (where everybody knows your name)

Boston Library/Copley Square

Boston Public Gardens (with Cortney, the squirrel whisperer)

Boston Common

State House

 The FREEDOM TRAIL!

Granary Cemetery

King's Chapel

-Lunch at B.Good

Old South Meeting House (Boston Tea Party)

 Site of the Boston Tea Party

-Pizza Dinner

Thursday:

Ride on the Swan Boats in the Boston Public Gardens' Pond and shopping (the women)

-Crypt and bell tour at King's Chapel (the men)

-Finishing The Freedom Trail:

Old State House Tour

Boston Massacre Site

-Lunch at Quincy Market (sooo awesome!)

Faneuil Hall (closed)

Holocaust Monument

Oldest Tavern in the US

Mike's Pastry (mmmmm, canolis!

Paul Revere's House

USS Constitution/Old Iron 

Battle Of Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill)

The end of the Freedom Trail! 

-Dinner at Canary Square

Friday:

-Traveled to Quincy on the T

-Lunch at Gunther Tooties (such a delicious soup and salad place!!!)

United First Parish Church tour

 Tombs of the Adams' (John and Abigail, John Quincy and Louisa Catherine)

Dunkin' Donuts! 

Adam's Historical National Park (The John Adams and John Quincy Adams Birthplace, as well as the Old House)

Quincy Cemetery 

 Traveling back to downtown Boston

-Dinner at the Cheesecake Factory (So. Stinkin'. Good!)

Saturday:

Headed home!

My very precise husband's luggage. He's got skills.

 The delicious snack on the way home! 

Thanks for planning such an awesome trip, Amber (and Riley, too)! We had so much fun and will cherish these awesome memories forever!