So. Back safe from Boston! Besides some weird flight delays and cancellations and other such regular travel stuff, all is good!
Boston is for sure a super cool town, and it was fun to check it out with my Pops! Especially the way that they have integrated history and modern business all in the same spot, for example see the buildings contrasted below:
The Freedom Trail is a great walk through old and new sites, and it is hard to fathom some of the history that is really all right there is Boston: Paul Revere, John Hancock, Sam Adams (ya that bitter beer guy), Ben Franklin, the USS Constitution (Ol' Ironside), Boston Commons, and the Public Gardens! All great!
Here is Ol' Ironside:
We had the chance to check out a Boston University hockey game (an exhibition game) against the University of Toronto, and all told it was a rather chippy affair and pretty one-sided, I believe that the final score was 9-3 for BU. I'm glad I got a chance to show Pops how seriously college sports are taken down here. Even at an exhibition game the band and the cheering and the painted fans wee out in full force!
After the Freedom Trail and the sports we went over to take a look around Harvard, which is a very eclectic place to say the least--the students and profs all look like you would expect, a little nerdy and sun deprived aha! The campus is pretty nice, but maybe not as nice as UVa ;)
There was seafood, and there was some beer, some awesome walks, and some much needed familiar conversation and a proper bed (ya, mine here kind of sucks)! All told, pretty successful weekend!
Now, back to the books!
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