July 1, 2011 – Day 1

The bedroom area

The view from our room

 Boston – Both of us have read about the city but neither of us have been there so it was this years Fourth of July trip.

We left Illinois under a heat advisory and we arrived in Boston to 70 degree, wonderful weather.

We checked into the Renaissance by Marriott and it is a beautiful hotel. It is the first time we have stayed at a Renaissance, and won’t be the last. Very upscale and we have a room that is 365 sq ft with a great view of downtown and the harbor.



Lunch

For lunch we went to a local restaurant/wholesale fish market call Yankee Lobster and ate ourselves silly. We had a lobster roll, fries, cold slaw and 21 cold boiled shrimp.

After lunch, we walked along the dock area by our hotel seeing what was there – a lot of docks, fishing boats restraurants and water!



Then we took the subway to Boston Commons. We visited a very old church and then walked about 20 minutes through that area to Trinity Church were we met our guide from the Boston Society of Architects for a 5:30pm tour of the sites and homes of Beacon Hill – a very exclusive area of almost all expensive row houses. It was a 90 minute tour and a lot of fun. In the entire area of Beacon Hill, the street lights are the old fashioned gas light.


Beacon Hill house

After the tour, we took a cab back to the hotel and went to a local restaurant on the dock of the major fish market called “No Name Restaurant” which opened there in 1917.

Then back to the hotel were Barb has crashed already. Se is out like a light and really needs her sleep as she has been working virtually day and night since Bloomington Gold getting the house ready after the kitchen remodeling.

I am tired also, so good night from Boston