Spent a week in Boston for a wedding.  It was a pretty big affair.  The rehearsal dinner, the wedding it self, the reception...  The reception included a procession of the bride and groom, the mother, the father, the grandmother...fortunately I did not qualify for a march across the floor.  The music was so loud, we cut out early. Why do we have to destroy our hearing to attend these events?  Part of the idea is to talk, which one cannot do when music is blasting.  I made my wedding dress out of $5 worth of material I bought at Goodwill, so ha!.

After the ceremony, we were instructed to turn to the person next to us and share a special thought.  As an introvert, I hate this part. I motioned Robbie closer and told him, "If you plan a big wedding, I shall knee cap you".

Since we flew all that way, we spent the week exploring Boston.  We lived there for two years, so we had some idea of how to get around and how to use the T, so we bought a week's pass.

One day at the aquarium with Robbie and Renata, three days in the Science Museum (we bought a membership), two days on the Freedom Trail, one day on the African American Trail, one day in the Harvard museum, one day on Georges Island to Fort Warren. We closed the museum every day.  We get our money's worth, by George.

Park Rangers are special. They are over educated, under paid, and every one of them has an area of expertise.  And all they are ever asked is Where is the bathroom.  We toured with a couple of historians who added a lot of detail.  Then we went into the African American museum with another volunteer.  I had no idea that there were four million slaves in the South before the Civil War.  The museum had just spiffed up the place with a grant from the Obama administration.  The historian told us that would never happen with the current administration, and I said, "Oh, ya think?"  He laughed.

At Fort Warren a volunteer showed us this eight-sided brick. A ranger did a trivia contest, which I won, and we attended a program on a Confederate memorial which was recently removed.  Fort Warren was mainly used as a Confederate prison, which I knew, but I did not know about the memorial.

Then a ranger at the new Bunker Hill museum gave an excellent talk on the battle, about which I knew nothing.  If the temperature is over 80, they close the monument and move outdoor tours indoors.  Wimps.

When he was a kid, Robbie loved this kronosaurus at the Harvard Museum. 

Lighting show at the science center: did this twice

the martian

Fort Warren.  The roof is held up by this eight sided brick.