Day One: Boston/ Cape Cod Trip

Casey and I just spent 3 days in Boston and Cape Cod Massachusetts. I decided in February that I wanted to surprise Casey with a trip to somewhere for his birthday, because he had never flown before. I thought Boston would be cool because I figured we could go see a Red Sox game, and other things. It was tons of fun!

Day One:

Our flight for Chicago left at 7:00am on Wednesday, the 12th. I was very nervous b/c our layover in Chicago was only going to be for about 40 minutes. Our plane left about 20 minutes late, so I was even more nervous! We made it by the skin of our teeth, in fact they were calling us on the speaker! One of my favorite parts of that flight was crossing over the great lakes. It was so beautiful!



We arrived in Boston at about 1:30 and figured out the bus and rail system pretty quickly. It was pretty cloudy and drizzly, but luckily it wasn't raining so we were still able to do what we had planned for that day. We spent a couple of hours walking the freedom trail, which is a 2.5 mile walk passing by some historical parts of Boston. Here are some of my favorite parts of the trail:

Old North Church. This is the church that they hung the lanterns on to signal Paul Revere to warn people that the British were coming.



Paul Revere Statue



Paul Revere's House



Paul Revere's Grave. He was buried in the Old Granary Burying ground. We also saw Samuel Adam's grave, Benjamin Franklin's parents' grave, and John Hancock's grave.



Old South Meeting House. This is where the declaration of indpendence was read on 1776.



Along the way we also stopped in Little Italy at a pastry shop called Mike's Pastry. Umm. It was AMAZING! We hadn't eaten much that day, thank goodness, and we loaded up on treats. We had the Boston cream pie, a chocolate moose cannoli, and a lobster tail which is that HUGE pastry Casey is biting into!




We made it through most of the Freedom Trail, before heading over to Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox play the Detroit Tigers. There are not really words to describe the experience of being there. It was just so historical and so amazing to actually see the Green Monster in person! I am not even that big of a baseball fan, but it was a definite highlight of the trip.