Day 3 | NYC

We got in to NYC on the bus at 5:30 am and ran on the 15 minutes on and off of sleep that we got on the bus. We went down and ate lunch at the Stardust Cafe. It was a fun little place where the waiters sing and such. it was fun. We walked around and saw a lot of time square and then went over to the village and got some banana pudding from this outrageously good bakery. After that we went down and hit up the south ferry and went across to staton island. Saw old lady liberty and then headed back. We took a walk around battery park and then went up to manhattan to see the temple. It was cool how it was kinda just right there in the middle of everything. We hung out at the chapel for a few minutes and I met up with my old friend Heidi Webster and got to talk to her for a few minutes.
The plan was to see In the Heights. Sadly we didnt get drawn for the loto, so we didnt get in last night. We decided to try again tonight and if we dont win we will just get tickets at the box office. So instead of the show, we saw a few other places and got some dinner and then decided to turn in fairly early because we have a lot on the to do list today and we needed some sleep. Here are a couple of pics from day three.





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Boston Day 2 | Red Sox Game

Well, day two in Boston was pretty exciting as well. We were pretty tired from the jam packed day one so we decided to get a little later start. We went down to Fenway Park and went to the official team store. I could have spent a fortune in there, but luckily resisted and am debating on what to get when I head back on Saturday. After leaving the store and Jenni losing her brown cardigan, we caught the T over to Harvard Square and saw a bunch of the Harvard campus and the cool surrounding areas. I wanted to take a walk down to the Cambridge chapel that I went to a lot of meeting and help baptisms at. We walked down the street and to my extreme dismay I found the chapel in burnt shambles. I guess last Sunday there were some electrical problems and the building went up in flames. There were still fire crews and demolition teams there on the scene. Not exactly what I expected to see when I went back there.



We caught some lunch, did a little shopping and then went back to Fenway for the Red Sox game against the Blue Jays. It was a perfect night for a baseball game (Perfect 74 degrees) and the atmosphere of Fenway was pretty much just as I imagined it would be. The most exciting part of the game was the bottom of the 5th inning when the Sox hit four home runs and David Ortiz finally came out of his batting slump and hit his first HR of the season. I knew he was just holding out for me to get there to see it. My first sox game was a truly magical experience.





After the game we went back to the hotel and got our bags. We then got back on the train and headed back for south station to catch our early morning bus to NYC. The bus left at 2:00 am and we arrived here in NYC this morning at about 5:30. I found my friend Cy's place were we will be for the next couple of nights and now here I am updating. That is a pretty condensed version of the day, but alas, that is what you get.

Boston Day 1

Greetings from Boston. I got here late last night and had a day packed full of sight seeing, walking and seeing a bunch of stuff that I never got to do when I was here on my mission. It is kinda cool and strange all at the same time. Going to some different parts of the city that I never got to see have helped me realize that there is a whole other Boston that I never knew. We spent much of the morning on the freedom trail. I never got to do any of that while I was here and since I love history so much it was pretty fascinating for me to hear and see a lot of the historical sights. Interesting how some of the stories that we were told growing up are quite far from how things really shook down in history. I had heard bad things about the USS Constitution stop, but I was really glad that we stopped there and took the guided tour. Very cool stuff. We ate at a great Italian place in little italy on the north end. It was really good. Later we took a walk through the common and the park and then down newbury street. We packed in a lot and had a great day.
Tomorrow is the big Red Sox game at night, and during the day we are going to go across the river into Cambridge and Belmont to see Harvard and some other cool stuff. Ill give you more updates on that tomorrow unless I dont get to update because of our late night travel to NYC.
Here are a few pics.

Bunker Hill Monument

Boston

First Boston City Building