Love this city!

Ron and I visited Boston for the first time over the 4th of July.  What a great city!  We walked almost everywhere and if we couldn't we took the T, the very easy to use public transit system.  We walked the Freedom Trail, climbed the tower at Bunker Hill, stayed in a really cool boutique hotel,

visited the Kennedy Library,

toured Paul Revere's house, visited the Harvard campus,

and saw the site of the very first public school in America.

We had dinner at the bar that was the inspiration for the show Cheers, one of our favorites when we were first married.  


 We saw the site that marks where the Boston Massacre occurred...

  and went to a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park, a super cool old ball park. 

We visited the Boston Commons

and the Public Gardens, the setting for the book 'Make Way for Ducklings."

I bought a copy at the Harvard Bookstore.  I REALLY wanted to go inside the Harvard Libray but you needed a student card...sigh.

 We were there on a Sunday so we chose one of the beautiful old churches we had visited along the Freedom Trail to worship at on Sunday morning.  We went to King's Chapel, which was built in 1686 and  had been Paul Revere's home church.  We went forward to take  communion by intinction.  The bowl that the wafers were served in and the chalice that the wine (real) was offered in were made by Paul Revere himself!  And on the 4th we walked down to the river and listened to the Boston Pops play before the fireworks.  We then went back to our hotel room, where we had an excellent view of the fireworks from our window.  Early the next morning we reluctantly flew home.