Our last day here... and we are still hoofing it all over!

We are started our day out with the plans to visit museums... which are air conditioned... AND take taxi's to arrive at said museums.  Went for breakfast about 10ish at the "Trident Books and Cafe".... that was about 4 blocks from our hotel.  We saw more and more shopping stores on our way.  All built in the old buildings... so awesome... but, back to the day... after breakfast, we decided to walk to the St Charles River and then hop a cab to the museums.  We were so warm and figured the river would have a breeze to cool us down.  I will say, the breeze in town felt like you opened an oven door... next to the river.. well, not a whole lot better.  We have noticed lots of emergency vehicles racing around.  The heat is getting to people.  Today, one was for a person just laying on the sidewalk next to the steps to a store.  She was pretty out of it, but, it seemed in the end, alcohol probably was playing a big role in it too.
We followed the river as far as we could, and got on to Charles Street... Someone we meet yesterday had told us there was a yummy ice cream shop there... we found it, we loved it!  While we sitting there, Jerry mentioned doing a geocache... and, we started checking the app and found some possibilities.  The end result.. we found one of the cache's... another one, we couldn't really look for too well cuz there were too many folks around.  It made the walking we were doing a little easier to handle... I was busy with the GPS on the phone, etc that time passed quicker... Well, about 3 pm, we decided, forget the museum, time to go home.  I tell you, our room felt so good!  Nice and Cool!
This has been a good trip... had a few, will quite of few, of ups and downs with Halley, but as always, one blocks that out and just remembers the good stuff.  We have visited so many new places and created a bunch of neat memories!  Thanks for coming along with us!  

 

This is the building where we had dinnner with a view last night... 52 stories!

 

One of the many little bridges next to the St Charles... These were not over the river itself, just over the little causeway that ran along the river.
 

 

The Boston Pops conductor, Arthur Feidler (SP?)... this was sclupted from thick sheets of metal.  Pretty cool!
 

 

When the Pops perform outdoors... July 4th is a biggee here!
 

 

Great Ice Cream shop.... Jerry and I were trying to figure out what Geocache we should go for
 

 

At 3:30, this is what the Elevator Outdoor Temp said... I guess we were a little warm!
 

Our view at Dinner last night! AND Jerry crossing the Marathon Finish Line!

We had a late walk last night and ended up at a restautant called Top of the Hub!  On the 52nd floor of the Prudential Building.  Gorgeous... too bad the thick humidity prevented us from seeing further, still nice none the less...Happy to say the food was good too...  Oh, and for the finish line pic... We can see it from our window, so after he exercised in the morning, he went out and crossed it.... That's my guy!

 

 

 

 

 

The Foss Family takes on Bean Town!

Been busy, Been warm, Been tired! I think that about describes it. Boston is unseasonable warm… there average at this time of year is about 82… been above 90 everyday we have been here and the humidity rises more each day! Before I left Tacoma, I had found a gentleman through Trip Advisor ratings who could give us a private tour of the city on Sunday. David, his son, picked us up at 10am… and off we went till 3pm… 

Saw so, so, so much and loved the fact we were in an air-conditioned vehicle and we could stop, get out, check things out, and get back in a cool car. This was especially good for Halley… She seems to get more sedentary… Sure hope she can turn that around! Oddles and oddles of pictures, so I’ll just post a few. You all know, this area is just filled with our country’s history and one can only imagine the courage all these folks had. I’d be hard pressed to say that we would find that same attitude in today’s society. We hit all the spots from historic to regional (like Little Italy, etc) to commercial (Bar that served as a front for the Cheers TV Show). Had lunch in a tavern Paul Revere frequented.. been there since the 1700’s, Warrens Tavern. When we first walked in, it felt old and even smelled old (not too gross or I would have left!); it was even air-conditioned… LIKE as we say on FB. Paul Revere’s home, The State House, Several Libraries, lots of churches, The ship, The Constitution, Harvard (way too huge!), Kennedy Library, a new Holocaust exhibit that really different, Faneuil Hall, Fenway Park, Bunker Hill, and that’s just a few of the places!

 Monday, we bid adieu to Halley and Dan, and then we took off on foot about 9:30am for more walking around. Jerry said we should get out before it gets too hot… Too late, at 9:30 it was 79 degrees! Anyway, off we went… Decided to checkout if we could find a geocache… and we did… awesome! Actually, located another one about 45 minutes later near Boston Commons. From there we kept walking, walking, walking… looking at things, checked out the graveyard with Paul Revere and a whole bunch of other famous folks. More walking around and ended up at the Boston Public Library …A beautiful building with a large courtyard in the middle and a couple restaurants, one of which we choose to have a late lunch. Nice, and relaxing and refreshing! After lunch we toured the building… just as beautiful as the NY Library! Okay… nuff of this stuff!

 This memorial has 6 difference glass box/towers... and engraved on each of them, in small letters, are the names of all the victims of the Holocaust

 Cool old churches, where they have boxes instead of traditional pews.  People would have their own box and would bring little metal boxes filled with hot bricks to keep them warm... I never really thought about how they wouldn't have normal heating there...

 Don't ever let me wear those plaid shorts in pictures again!

 The Washington Monument was designed after this, the Bunker Hill Monument.  This one stands 221 ft tall.  You can climb the stairs all the way up to the top!  However, this day, they were not allowing anyone to go up due to the heat! All stairs, and no air or fans!

 Harvard... and the unique buildings....

 And this, my folks, is NOT a church on campus... was built as it's Annenberg Freshman Dining Hall... It reminds me of Hogswart!

Boston... a hot little place today!

Wow.... long day, warm day... Got to check in early at our hotel (like at 10am)... what a blessing...Did some exploring... man... it is so warm.  Boston Commons was beautiful... got another bridge pic there!  The buildings here are beautiful and the churches pretty spectacular-old and stately.  Wonder if they are filled on Sunday?

It's late... so this is short... tomorrow we have someone taking us around town... That should be way easier on Halley (well, and us too in this heat)!  So, Nighty night folks... will talk later!

 Coming into Boston.... 6 AM...Yup, we were up to see it!

 That's my classy husband... loved the napkin built for placing on you button....

 Boston Library... pretty darn huge... this is just a portion of it

 Jerry changing his convertible pants into shorts.... He felt much better after that!

 We are wilting,can you tell?

 Boston Commons...