A Visit to the City of Boston

Today I'm going to share a few photos from our day trip to the City of Boston. Our main reasons for going to the Boston area was to visit family and to take Anthony to college, but I also wanted to do a little sightseeing.

Lisa drove us there on Friday afternoon and boy were we glad she drove. The streets are crazy! She also knew some ways to cut down on some of the traffic plus give us a more scenic view. One of the places she wanted to take us was Boston Common. Boston Common is a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts. It is sometimes erroneously referred to as the "Boston Commons". Dating from 1634, it is the oldest city park in the United States. (Info from Wikipedia) Braeden loved being outside and being able to look at birds, dogs, and trees. I took this photo of one of the entrances and I love the contrast between the modern skyline in the background and the lush trees in the foreground. Boston is definitely not in the middle of a drought like we are, back home in San Antonio.

We saw a lot of beautiful classic architecture also. There were especially a lot of grand old churches, almost on every block we walked. I wanted to show this particular photo because of the contrast between the old and the new. This is Trinity Church, that was founded in 1733, located in the Back Bay of Boston. We actually walked into the church, but they charged an entrance fee, so we decided that we weren't that interested in seeing the inside, plus Braeden really preferred being outside anyway.

Also found in the Boston Common was a special exhibit. I copied and pasted the following blurb from the Boston Globe:

“Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet” has landed in Boston. The public art project, for which artists designed globes with green strategies to contend with environmental issues, originated in Chicago in 2007 and has traveled the world. The globes, 48 in all, can be found at sites such as the Esplanade, Copley Square, and Logan Airport. The Common is globe central, with 26."

Braeden really thought the globes were cool, especially since he loves balls. He wanted to touch each and every one. As he approached a globe, he would reach his arm out as if to try to reach the globe from his stroller. Lisa would get him up really close, he would touch the globe, then he would quickly pull his hand back as if to say, "I'm done with that one. On to the next one." Amazingly, he seemed to recognize when he had not yet touched a particular globe, because we came back by some of the ones he had already touched, and he didn't extend his hand out to those at all, but instead to the ones beyond that he had not yet touched. Smart kid. :)

Lisa wanted to get a picture by this baseball globe, since Derek is such a big baseball fan. They even got Anthony a Boston Red Sox T-shirt as a "Welcome to Boston" gift. I hope we get many more chances to visit Boston in the coming years. We can explore some of the many other sites that we missed during this quick trip to the city.