Week Three

-We hung out with Amos, Rudy, Tim, Stew, and Jason, all friends from DU, on Monday night after work. Then on Tuesday Summer enjoyed her first spinning workout class and we ended the evening by watching Good Will Hunting. Spectacular movie!
-On Wednesday we did some after work yoga then had a relaxing evening at Amos' house with his friend, James, and sister, Fran. 
-Thursday called for a short day at the office and in the evening we met up with Stew and Becca, a DU friend visiting from Wisconsin for the weekend. We walked to Walden Pond, where Thoreau wrote the book Walden, from Stew's house and enjoyed a little swim in the beautiful lake. Later the night we watched The Departed to complete our Bostonian cinematic ventures.
-Friday we took the T to Downtown Crossing, the center of the city, and began on the Freedom Trail.  We saw Park Street Church, where My Country Tis of Thee was first sung and the first missionaries left from to go to Hawaii; Old Granery Burial Ground where Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, John Adams are all buried; King's Chapel; Old South Meeting House, where the secret signal was given by Samuel Adams to the men to begin the Boston Tea Party; Old State House and Boston Massacre Site; Faneuil Hall; Quincy Market; the North End (Little Italy, where we had the most delicious cannolis of all time); and Old North Church, where Paul Revere started his midnight ride.  That night we went out downtown with Amos and his friends and stayed at his apartment in the Back Bay.

Summer Street! At Downtown Crossing

Cannolis in the North End

Paul Revere and Old North Church

completed the Freedom Trail!

-Saturday we successfully navigated from downtown to our house sans GPS.  Then mostly just laid on our deck in the sun and ate otter pops.  In the evening we headed out to Rhode Island to begin our Independence Day celebrations with Edie!  We got there around ten, and checked out the local carnival then headed to bed.
-We started today sailing with Edie and her dad out around Hog Island, about a two hour adventure.  Learned a little about reefing sails, tacking and jibing.  Then we rode bikes out to the park where there was live music and people everywhere enjoying the long weekend. This town, Bristol, is 4th of July crazy.  It has the oldest 4th of July parade in the country and has been deemed the most patriotic town in America.  Red, white, and blue lines replace the usual yellow ones in the middle of the roads and every house is decked out completely with flags and USA shwag. (Summer is having mainland culture shock and loving it.) We're getting ready now for Edie's family's party of about 30 people where we'll watch the fireworks show over the Bristol harbor and are excited to continue the celebrations tomorrow!