Boston Day 6 (Last Day)

Sixth day. We seem to be starting to forget to take pictures, the posts are getting smaller and smaller, anyways...on our last day we decided to take the subway out to Harvard and take a tour of the campus.

Waiting for the T (subway)

We ate lunch at this place that is supposed to be pretty popular with the students at Harvard. Everything on the menu was named after a celebrity. Pretty neat place.

This is the entrance gate to Harvard. When you come to school here you are only allowed to walk through these gates twice, once when you arrive and second when you graduate and leave, otherwise it's bad luck.

Listening to the tour guides, they are students who give tours for free and only work for tips.

Our tour guides

This is supposed to be a statue of the founder of the school, but a fire burned all the photographs of the founder in one of the buildings and he had passed so they modeled him after someone else. It is supposed to be good luck to rub his foot, but our tour guides didn't recommend doing it because the students know that tourists touch his foot and so they do some pretty nasty things to the foot of the statue. Needless to say we didn't rub his foot for good luck but laughed as other tourists did.

One of the many buildings, most of them all look about the same, all made out of brick.

Harvard Yard, which is a big lawn

This building was built as a monument to all the students that ever went to Harvard and I can't remember if it was for those whose died in war or just for all the students who were in the armed forces, but all the names of the students are carved on the inside walls. It is a super cool place.

That night when we got back we ate a super delicious Italian place and we forgot to take a picture and we were getting tired so I made Travis hold up our pizza box in our hotel room so I could take a pic. This place was seriously sooooo good.

The End (of our Boston trip, your probably happy to read that, if anyone is still reading this at all)

Boston Day 5

On our fifth day we took a water taxi over to see the U.S.S. Constitution, one of the first of six ships in the USA naval fleet. It is the oldest ship afloat in the world. We walked around the museum and watched a movie on the ship and then we took a tour of the ship. It was pretty cool.

U.S.S. Constitution

One of the cannons in the ship

The ship is kept in the Charleston Navy Yard

After we were done with the tour we walked the rest of the Freedom Trail. This red brick trail goes all over the city along tons of historical sites.

We thought this lamp was pretty cool

Crazy squirrel, we never see them where we live Travis thought he was really cool, ha!

Reallllllllly cool architecture. These homes are in the preservation district.

We ended the freedom trail at the Bunker Hill monument

Random pictures while we were waiting for the water taxi to take us back to the main city.

Boston Day 4 (Salem)

On our fourth day we rode the Salem Ferry over to Salem Mass. to explore the witches, ha! We loved Salem, it was a cute quiet little historic town. We rode the trolley all over the city and saw lots of cool architecture and learned lots of fun stuff about the early settlers.

The Salem Ferry

The view of Boston as we ferried out from the wharf

We ate lunch at Red's Sandwich Shop, supposedly the early political types would meet there every day and discuss the politics of the day.

One of the headstones we saw in one of the many cemeteries. I thought it was cool cause it says that this person was a pilgrim that came over on the Mayflower.

The stocks!

This is inside the Witch Wax Museum, this statue used to be displayed out in the city but was brought into the museum for display.

Roger Conant, the founder of Salem. People thought that he was a witch because of his stature. He does look like a tall, looming and dark kind of guy.

We watched a presentation at the Salem Witch Museum.

This is the Witch museum, pretty cool building.

Our trolley that we rode all over Salem all day!! You buy a ticket for the whole day and then you can ride it all around town and hop on and off as you please. It was pretty fun.

Cool house

America's first candy store. I thought it was pretty sweet, ha!

Nathaniel Hawthorne's birthplace

House of seven gables, we didn't take the tour but walked around the outside, it is a very pretty house facing right out into the ocean, very cool.

View from our ferry ride as we are leaving Salem