Listen My Children………

  We’re in Boston.   We drove to a transit center and got on the subway to get to down town Boston.  (FUN)  We started our tour at the museum of science to board an amphibious army vehicle.  Our driver gave us a great look at the city and the “history” of the area.   We saw the state house, but Verne needed a haircut first.   The tour also  took us into the Charles River.  What a fun look at the skyline of the city.  

After the tour we took our own tour following the “freedom trail” marked in red along the sidewalks and roads. (2 1/2 miles)    During the walk we found ourselves at a delicious pastry store where we treated ourselves to a “cannoli” Boston boast of very good Italian food and next to the pastry store was our Italian lunch.YUM  Back on the trail we came to the Paul Revere home.  The next stop was the famous Old North Church, where the two lanterns were placed in the belfry tower.    Revere and 2 friends road to Concord,MA from Lexington,MA when Revere was  captured, one went back to Lexington, and the third (Prescott) continued to Concord.

“The 18th of April in 75”        Walking back to the subway Verne shared a bench with a famous coach of the basket ball team “Boston Celtics”

Casey, I hope you now who he is????  This is Bunker hill where the bloodiest battle of the revolutionary war took place. The American soldiers of 500, held off 4000 British soldiers for 3 days. The Americans finally had to quit and run because they ran out of ammunition. We lost only 2 soldiers. They had heavy casulties. The last stop of the day was a real highlight.   We toured the U.S.S. Constitution.    Built in 1894 under the direction of Pres. George Washington.   The ship was beautiful and is the oldest commissioned war ship in the world.   We were so tired and hot when we got back to the motel we showered and went to bed.   We had a very full day.