July 3, 2011 – Day 3

The Trolley

We were up and out of the hotel by 9 and caught the trolley to the first stop which was a 1 hour tour of Boston Harbor.

We sat with a couple who were from Switzerland and enjoyed the start of the morning on the water sightseeing and talking with new friends.

After the boat ride, we took the trolley to see the USS Constitution in the Charleston Navy Yard. This 3-masted sailing ship is still an operational ship in the US Navy and it was fun to tour it.

Then it was on to Trinity Church for a tour. The church is built on thousands of trees that are buried in the ground vertically to form the foundation. As most of Boston is on man-made land, that is how the older building were built.



The Boston Skline



We then took the subway to Fenway Park to tour the home of the Boston Red Socks but it was raining when we got there so we took the subway back into town to Quincy Market which is a huge downtown market made up of lots of food stands and lots of shops.

We ate lobster and shrimp again at a really neat restaurant.

Back to the hotel to change for the dress rehearsal of the Boston Pops.

We had purchased special VIP seats so we only needed to arrive about 2 hours before the start of the concert, which we did and there were supposedly already 100,000 people there.



USS Constitution

When we tried to find our seats, they kept sending us to different gates until at a backstage gate the police office said that we had been a victim of a $200 scam and there were no VIP tickets!!

Were we crushed; however, we went back to a special seating area and met a really nice guy named Jim who was operating the gate.  Jim called one of the organizers staff over to get the information from our tickets, which we bought on line. I later called AMX and the canceled the charge so we haven’t lost any money.

To make a long story short, we ended up sitting in the 10th row with Jim, his wife Tanya and daughter Sophia and had a wonderful concert and what started out so badly ended up fantastic thanks to the generosity of one person who just happened to be controlling the gate that we went to for help.  What an amazing thing they did for us.

Boiling Lobster for dinner

Tomorrow is the fireworks and early on we will to make sure that our tickets for July 4th are valid.  Night - Night



The Boston Pops







Thanks Jim, Tanya and Sophie for making our trip so special!!!