Thursday, July 7, 2011

what we didn't do on independence day

*We didn't watch a parade.
*We walked (most of) The Freedom Train instead. We saw the original site of the Boston Massacre, Paul Revere's house, and the gravesites of Paul Revere, John Hancock, Ben Franklin's parents, and the victims of the Boston Massacre.


*We didn't have a backyard bbq.
*We ate Cannolies from Mike's Pastry and a pulled pulled pork sandwich from Ari's BBQ at Quincy Market, where the guy who took our order told us the only "specials" were our kids and then gave Ana a free juice for being so adorable. Ana blew him a kiss when we left.


*We didn't see the Rupert fireworks or "The Biggest Show in Idaho" or watch the neighbors light fireworks in the street.
*We watched the fireworks sitting in the street in front of MIT with our friends, the Dahle's, (and approximately 500,000 other people) and listened to the Boston Pops and Martina McBride over loud speakers.






*I didn't take too many pictures because our camera battery died.
*We had our video camera, and that was cool.

We had an awesome, though very different, 4th of July. We are so glad we decided to go!

1 comment:

Karianne said...

cool. Next year, I want to come too.