Boston Rocks!

Mark at his first Boston Red Sox's Game - notice he is wearing red to fit in?

shot from our seats - downtown Boston skyline in the background

when buying on e-bay it is common courtesy to inform the buyer that the view is obstructed! This was taken by Mark from his seat. We were saved by the very nice family next to us - they moved down and we moved into their seats - Boston fans are nice.

It's been a long week and finally I am getting around to uploading my pics - and really they are not all that great. Not sure what we were thinking cause we didn't take many. Thursday night we went to Foxwoods - great hotel/casino destination in Conneticut. Hard to pass up a free room and I was surprised it was so nice because it was in the "old" part. Friday morning we took off for Boston - it was about two hours with several stops to snag some deals at Shaws. I mean how can you pass up 5 cases of pop plus a 22 snack pack of chips for $11? LOL! Mostly for my work for lunches we do. We were also hunting for this litter than our cats think is the only litter they can pee on - nothing else, but the rug will do. Kind of kidding and kind of not. The hunt resumes tonight. Back to Boston because I really digressed there.

We stayed at the Copely Square Hotel and wow - they do it right. Free coffee and tea in the lobby, plus wine at 5:00. They come in and turn down your sheets and leave a little bed time story, plus two bottles of water. And the bed was heavenly making it hard to get up. They had a cool bar scene, but you had to dress right. Trust me that is not how I dress - it was dressy club clothes. I was in my ball game outfit. LOL! Don't think my sneakers cut it.

Fenway Park is full of history and was fun to go to - we even got to watch them lose. The park was close enough for us to walk too and we managed to get dinner on the way back after.

Day two was a the trolley tour and lunch at the pier. Then we toured some more and hit some little shopping areas. I probably should mention that without cats to wake us we slept in until 10am! yes 10am! unheard of for us. So that shortened our day a bit. Saturday night we hit Vinny T's for an Italian dinner and while it is a chain it is only in the Boston area. Great food - more normal Italian than fancy. We'll go back there sometime I'm sure.

Boston has some edges over NYC, but each has their own fun things. Would love to take a whale or harbor cruise, hit the North End and shop more next time... obviously we will be going back.

this is sort of a freak show in progress - he is very talented to say the least... the crowd is entertaining too ...