Thursday, April 21, 2011

Boston- chapter 3

Sunday morning we took the T to Cambridge to go to church in the morning. It was not too far from a station. It was a new building with a three level parking garage under the building and the church itself was three stories tall. It had two chapels and we were told that seven church units meet at the building. The ward we attended was mainly young families who were attending most likely graduate school. After church we went to the station and traveled back to the hotel.
I had meetings that I would be going to all afternoon long but before that started we decided to go get some lunch. We went to the north end of town to the Italian section to find something to eat. The first place we went to that a book had suggested was not at all what we thought it would be so we left it and found a place that had a brunch being served. It was interesting watching the people of Italian decent come together and sit and talk at the restaurant. The weather was nice so they had the windows open to let the fresh air into the building. The place was next to where the elevated freeway had been and now it looks over a long park that has been developed on top of the tunnel.  
After lunch I went to meetings and Cindy and Maddie went to the Aquarium. The place has a large circular tank and a ramp spirals up the tank. They started from the top and worked their way down which proved to be a good move. As they were at the top they started to feed the fish and the first was the turtles so they watched this big turtle come to the top to get fed. As they worked there way down they came across a shark. The shark took an interest in them and as he passed by turned his head and looked at them as if to say, " I'm watching you two, you are next."
There were penguins which were lively and fun to watch and of course many types of fish and even a blue lobster.










After they finished the aquarium they decided to take the duck tour which is a tour bus that drives through the city but it is also amphibious and goes into the river . At first the person driving the tour was a newcomer and they did not like him as he was not comfortable with what he was doing. They thought what did we get ourselves into. They came to find out though that he was taking them to a place the tour began and another person took his place for the actual tour who was lively and funny. They saw Bunker's Hill, Old Ironsides, the North Church were the lanterns were hung to say how the British were coming.

























While they were doing their tour I headed to the conference center and got off at Copley Plaza. The plaza is in front of the Trinity Church and I had to take a couple of pictures. Next to the plaza on the street was some Greek parade going on so I took a picture of that also.
We finally got back together in the evening. We went to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner. Our waiter was a young man named Andrew. He was fun. Maddie had ordered this large burrito and Andrew did not think she could finish it off. He kept coming back and making statements of what he would do if she ate it all like confetti would come down from the roof. Well she ate it all and he had the staff come out and bring a  piece of cake with a candle on it and sang happy birthday to her even though he knew it was not her birthday. But the cake had candy confetti on it so he kept his promise. After dinner he said he enjoyed us and that we were very friendly. He traded numbers with Maddie and they still are talking to each other even after we have come home.

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