The Freedom Trail

Wednesday July 22, 2009
Aunty Up decided that she and Logan would hang at the hotel today so the rest of us headed downtown to walk Boston’s famous Freedom Trail. It is a very weird national park that leads people from Boston Commons (the oldest park in the US founded in 1634) along several miles of Boston’s old town connecting many famous historic buildings. We did not make it all the way to the end, but we saw many sights and learned a lot. We stopped for lunch at the Quincy market – which took a long time and was very crowded. We were told by the food court folks that it was actually a very mellow day and that was just mind-boggling, since we were in a crowd of jostling, hungry folks. The Freedom Trail wandered through Little Italy so we had a cannoli and continued. After seeing the Old North Church we made our way back via Metro to the hotel. It was after 4pm and we met up with Aunty Up and Logan. Once again the van would not start. We managed to jump it and after a stop for Gavyn to get a souvenier Patriot’s shirt we headed out of Boston. Myles was in an especially bad mood and that made all of us touchy and upset. But Mama headed to Walden Pond State Park. Due to traffic and our delayed departure we got there about 7pm and the boys took a very short swim and some of us ate dinner. We slid out of the park 8 minutes before it closed and made our way to Salem. We passed the Minuteman National Park but it was so late we just looked out of the window at the Lexington Battlefield. It gave Aunty Up and Mama shivers to see the very place where the Revolution started. Too much to do, not enough time! We ended our day in a cute motel – The Clipper Ship Inn near Salem.