saturday, july 26th, 12:31am
last night was a touch ugly. a little too much partying and fun was had by tim and i. oh well though, you only live once, gotta have fun when you can. we started by going to this italian restaurant, its name slips my mind. it was some pretty good grub. after that we headed back to that bar from the first night. we had a few beers in there. what i didn’t know is that i was watching the final game for xavier nady in a pirates uniform. after there we went took a stroll down the street trying to find a different place. after a passing a few places we decided on the boston billiards club. this place had a cool atmosphere going for it; something like twenty-five pool tables and a little library looking spot in the back. we just took up some spaces on the bar and had a few more frosty beverages there as well. all these drinks caught up with us this morning; we didn’t get started until about 3:00.
so i will skip the details of rolling around in bed for a few hours and get to the trip stuff! when we finally became mobile, we walked to the prudential center. this is a fifty or so story building with an observatory at the top. took a few pics in there as well as learning some interesting things about the city through this little audio device. after that we grabbed some lunch in a food court. at the base of this building is a high end mall. makes for a weird mix of people walking around.
metropolitan boston from 50 stories above
fenway park from 50 stories above
after this we started back for the hostel. on our way we found a cool comic book shop as well as some other places. at this point i can honestly say that this city is seriously starting to grow on me. the residential areas all seem to be pretty nice, and the subway is very easy to grab to get anywhere in town. from the comic shop tim and i split for a while. he had no interest in witnessing the chaos that was yankees versus red sox at fenway park. i, however, had to see this; and it did not disappoint.
craziness at fenway park
i have been to my fair share of sporting events, this pretty well trumped them all but the winter classic. people are everywhere, literally. its organized chaos. every bar outside of fenway had no less than one hundred people in line waiting to get in. every block had a scalper actually looking for tickets. this was a first for me; i’ve never been anywhere that a scalper didn’t have tickets outside. i didn’t stay long, they close the side streets unless you have tickets to the game. in that short time, though, i saw enough to know that boston fans love their teams. i may hate their fans, but i have a new respect for them. about ninety percent of the people i saw had some sort of red sox gear on. usually that number is somewhere around fifty to seventy-five percent. i will definitely have to get back here for a game… just not the yankees. i love baseball, just not enough to pay near to two hundred bucks for one ticket!
more craziness at fenway park
after this excitement i returned to the hostel. after a little down time i talked tim into going to harvard tonight. so we hopped on the green t, switched to red and were soon at the ivy league school. going at night had its benefits and drawbacks. starting the drawbacks; pictures pretty much suck at night. also, we just made it into the store before it closed. and with it a lot of the little shops were closed as well. what was cool about it at night is just the experience. harvard is exactly what i expected it to be like, its what i expected most colleges to be like actually. students studying inside, and excitement outside. there was no less that four or five musicians performing outside, with people all around. and then while walking, there was a group of about twenty or so people watching the sox game from a television in a store front. complete with lawn chairs! it was good to experience it a night, as i bet its a bit different by day.
random, awesome doorway at harvard
harvard church at night
after all this we hop back on the train and head for our impromptu home. we were hoping our french roommate, florian, would be back. he was not though. he seems like a pretty cool dude. he has been taking busses from nyc to california and back again; staying at hostels and such along the way. he just graduated college over there and has been doing this since; for about 2 months. i hope i get the chance to do that in europe at some point in my life. has to be an amazing experience.
so with florian not being in, we just went to get a little dinner ourselves. and still boston sports amaze me. i yankees game in the middle of the season, and the bars look like a sabres playoff game just let out! including still lengthy lines to get into places. so after some grub we decided to lay low tonight and try to get an earlier start on our last full day is boston.
2 Comments
July 26, 2008 at 4:45 am
I really want to be there….
I love this place
August 12, 2008 at 9:41 pm
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