Trip to Boston

So instead of a useful three day weekend that Marian and I could have used to go to Montreal and enjoy an extra day, we had to work Monday and have just 1 day off. So we decided to take a day trip to Boston.

We started at the Sam Adams brewery tour. Without GPS we would have never found it. Much of the neighborhoods looked like scenes out of The Departed, with occasional scenes from Good Will Hunting, not the Harvard parts. The tour itself, well, not so great, but at the end you get 3 7oz glasses of good beer. Marian generally is not a fan of beer, but even she was craving the opportunity to find more of the 31 flavors of Sam Adams, most noteably she wanted Cranberry Lambic, Marian loves all things LAMBIC! I successfully found some today and Marian found it tasty, not as much as she hoped. There are limits when your American beer is only 6% vice Belgian beer at 13-15%. But I digress. I even bought the "Perfect Pint" glass that Jim Koch developed, I will let you know if it lives up to the hype.

We then drove downtown to Boston Common and walked the Freedom Trail. It is a path that takes in almost all the historical spots in Boston. I saw the graves of Sam Adams, Paul Revere and John Hancock. We also saw the State House, "Glory" Memorial, Fanuel Hall, USS CONSTITUTION, and Old North Church.

We ended up having a great dinner with friend Janne and her fiance' Ed.

Our next destination, Montreal.