The pups:
The foliage:
This totally reminded me of the dead duck day from About a Boy. I was on the lookout for kids with loaves of bread.
Along the Freedom Trail:
Bunker Hill
Took a walk through the North End. My mom was a little slow on the uptake here, at one point she said "so, the North End is predominately Italian, huh?" Yes, yes it is.
Stood in line and got some Cannoli from Modern Pastry. Turns out, I'm not so much of a Cannoli person.
If you ever decide to walk the Freedom Trail, I'd say a good 70% of it is cemeteries. FYI.
Salem:
Took a day trip to Salem, overall it was kind of meh. I did get to be a pirate though. Albeit a pirate who appears to have a shrunken head.
They had a Bewitched statue (Maggie!). I was kind of disappointed that they did not have a Stevie Nicks statute as well. Also, the Salem Wax Museum, not that impressive. The wax figures are on a platform so all you can basically do is look at them. You can't take photos with the figures or anything, which was disappointing. I was hoping to get a candid of me and Goody Proctor, like we was all hanging out at the clubs and stuff. ;)
Visited the Peabody Museum which I had high expectations for, but again turned out to be kind of meh. There were a few things that I enjoyed though.
Say hi to Jizo (Heather!)
We stopped into a bookstore before leaving Salem and I think this is likely to be what my apartment will eventually turn into.
Christmas:
Before we left Boston my sister put up her Christmas decorations. CHRISTMAS!!! EEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Like I said, Stuffs:
They had these chocolates at Ikea, I'm sure it's probably not pronounced this way, but I just love having these around so that when someone does something extraordinary I can say damnnnnn, and hand them one of these candies.
I had to take a photo of these shopping basket/cart things that they have at supermarkets in Boston. I was captivated by them and much to the embarrassment of my family, insisted on using them. They are like little shopping baskets, but with wheels and a long hand so you can pull it after you. I guaranty it will be a long time before shopping basket technology has another breakthrough like this.
Ikea, how I love thee. I have their latest catalog and I just keep looking at it over and over again longingly. I am a complete sucker for mid-century modern Eames style aesthetic. Why we do not have one here, I do not know. I was completely excited when I saw they were adding on a furniture store at Ala Moana called Design Within Reach. I thought great, maybe this will be really great design at an affordable price. No, the within reach part of their name means design that is within an arm's length away from you. Come on, unless you created the Barcelona Chair, you really should not be selling it for that price. And if I ever did scrape up enough money to buy something from your store, I guaranty what I purchase will not be within arms length of my guests. It will be partitioned off behind a velvet rope, perhaps with a little placard. But I digress...
FIN
2 comments:
great episode on your Bostonadventures! I really like the picture of the red leafy vine crawling up the cement (that IS what it is, yes?) Looking at those pictures makes me think Boston is a quiet and serene place.. there's like no crowds of people walkin around everywhere! or was that just ur photog technique?
Yeah, that is indeed a red leafy vine crawling up the cement. My sister lives right next to a really big reservoir and this was one of the things that caught my eye along the way. Also, if you look across the reservoir in a certain way it kind of looks like a scene out of Goonies. Unfortunately, I forgot my Spanish Doubloon so I could not track down One Eyed Willy's Treasure :(
Well, there were crowds in some places, like at the shopping venues, on the T, and at the concert we went to. A lot of the places we visited were in the daytime during the work week so that might also explain the lack of crowds. But yeah, I generally don't like to take a bunch of pictures featuring a bunch of people I don't know (unless they are doing something interesting).
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