Boston review

We made it back save & sound on Sunday afternoon, just tired from all the flying in VERY small seats. Boston is a great city to visit. The weather was very nice compared to B'ham. Winter, however, would be a different story. We had some great seafood at Union Oyster House (est'd 1826) on Saturday. Jan and myself each had a whole live lobster cooked. Her's was baked with bread crumbs and mine was traditionally broiled. Mine had steamed mussels as a side dish and she had steamed crab as her side. I also had Oysters Rockefeller as an appetizer. Friday night we ate at Five North Square Restaurant on the north side of the city for Italian. I had veal Parmesan with shrimp and mushrooms in a hearty red sauce, yum! Jan and Pat shared a five cheese pasta. Thursday night we had dinner with one of Jan's students (now graduated) at Ocean Aire Seafood. I had lemon sole stuffed with lobster and crab meat. Great!

We went on the Old Town Trolley tour, very informative. We also went on the Boston Duck Tour where we went out on the Charles River on a WWII amphibious Duck for part of the tour in addition to the driving part of the tour. The people, overall, were very nice to us. We stayed at the Hyatt Regency on Lafayette St. Driving in Boston is an adventure unto itself. I gladly leave it to the taxi drivers (God bless 'em). There is no rhyme or reason to the road layout and they're all converted cow and horse paths from the 1700's , literally.

Suffice it to say everything in Boston is very old and historic. They have the "oldest" everything practically in the US. The Granary Burying Ground ( they don't call them cemeteries in Boston)http://http://cityguide.aol.com/boston/entertainment/old-granary-burying-ground/v-62956 was awesome and OLD. The tour guide said over 12,000 people were buried there. They would start at one end and by the time they reached the other end of the place, they would start over and bury on top of the decomposed remains of the last one buried in that plot. The trouble was, people were dying faster than they could decompose and the ground eventually became very soft and marshy. Decomposed remains would surface during hard rains & floods, so they had to stop placing bodies there. GROSS! That place is full of stories like that. It was a real hoot.

They gave us blow-by-blow accounts of the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre, even retracing the routes taken. Paul Revere did NOT say, "The British are coming!" Bare in mind at that time, we were all British citizens. What he said was, "The Regulars are coming!" Referring to the British soldiers. Paul was married twice, fathered eighteen children, outliving all but eleven, and was the real "father" of our country (LOL).

I could go on and on, you gotta go and see for yourself.