Okay, technically Day Two as we got in super late on the first day, but we’ll call it Day One as it was our first full day in Beantown.
April 14th, we woke up at our Holiday Inn Express down by TD Banknorth Garden, ate pancakes from the awesome pancake machine, grabbed coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts, ensured we had a late checkout, and headed over to the Museum of Science. Not your typical tourist destination, I get it, but it was FREE with our DMNS membership. We’ve talked about this reciprocity. It’s awesome.
Outside was our first taste of the Marathon, and a dinosaur.
The evolution on how people have thought T. rexes to have stood/walked.
We built our own fish.
Because who doesn’t remember/like playing with these?
In a space capsule!
Second T. rex with a bib.
Our own baby T. rexes in a T. rex footprint.
Street art just outside the MoS.
After the Museum, we headed off to our actual hotel, the Holiday Inn Brookline, to check in. We dumped our stuff and headed back downtown to meet our friend Lindsey for lunch. Lindsey works for adidas and was in town to work the Marathon expo. Lunch, as you might remember from my food series, was at Union Oyster House.
Brandon trying oysters.
Hey, trick lobster! It can hold stuff!
Me: Presenting, lobster.
Lobster: Presenting, human.
(The guys were very impressed with how much the lobster liked me. I am the lobster whisperer. It’s a thing.)
Trying oysters.
Lindsey getting on the oyster bandwagon.
After lunch, we dropped Lindsey back off at her hotel in Copley, randomly ran into our friend Nic (who, to be more accurate, literally almost ran into us; she also works for adidas), and checked out the Boston Public Library.
The lights outside the BPL are the best.
I am a sucker for spiral staircases.
The main hall.
After the library, we headed back toward Brookline and Boston University (campus! home!) for our hotel and dinner.
Oh Brown Sugar Cafe, I miss you.
Ivan with the Oreo Angora and Gustave with the coffee Angora.
Day one, in the books …
