Boston

Before Twilight hit me with a ton of repetition, I went to Boston. In a few days I felt like I had seen everything there. Of course to someone that has lived there I'm sure I'm dead wrong but, it definitely felt small; as if one took a block from a few neighborhoods in NYC, cleaned them, and stuck them in a clump.

The Hotel Colonnade.

We chose this place as it boasted that it had a nice roof top pool. Little did we know that it was merely a motel pool with plastic lawn chairs, placed on a roof. However, the rubber ducky, who's name has escaped me, made up for this deficiancy. The Hotel was in a convenient location between Back Bay and South End, near the Prudential Center. Our first afternoon we managed to walk up and down Newberry and see Boston Commons before going back and finding a nice seafood restaurant to eat at.

B & G Oysters on Tremont Street was recommended by "Best of Boston" after Neptune Oyster, but as it was closer and said to be more 'casual' we chose it instead. The lobster bisque was delicious!

The second day we took the T to visit cambridge and see Harvard, which seems to have influenced our own campus at Pratt quite a bit.

The images for the quad could almost be interchangable, but Pratt, having more recently landscaped, opted for brick. Being in somewhat familiar territory we felt quite at ease here and moved on to the more wild and stark campus at MIT. We went to see the monstrosity by Frank Gehry and stood at a driveway entrance wondering where it might be when we turned around and saw this. It looks like Dr Suess invaded this austere, technical, campus...

Not realizing the scale of the city we managed to squeeze in basically the rest of Boston into out 1st full day.

That evening we tried very hard to have a nice meal at, I suppose, a famous Boston restaurant: No.9 Park. However, we were forgotten at the bar and waited almost an hour, got drunk and became annoyed when the hostess sat us in a emptying room. We walked out and realized we had been in close proximity to what may be the greatest restaurant of all time

Too bad it was too late to eat there =( I think it would've been GLORRRIOUSSSS. GLOOORRRIOUS.

I guess the last day I didn't even bother to take pictures cause we just biked around the whole city again and ended at ICA. I found it less impressive and compelling in real life.