Finishing Up: The Freedom Trail

Well, we've been home almost a week and are settling in (though I haven't been on a real grocery shopping trip or done real laundry, so that does say something). I wanted to finish out the pictures of our trip with our last day-where we did the bulk of the "Freedom Trail" -which entails a lot of cemeteries...among other things.

Aren't we cute with our artistic shot of the trail?

Something like...first official landmark in Boston (it was by a pub). Everything is a first there, even if it's not really a first-they make it into one, like the Boston Public library may not be the first public library but it was the first library to start lending books to take home :)

What? You can't tell what that is? It's the site of the Boston Massacre, apparently it was more important to have a street than a monument.

Funny shirt about the accent there.

Site of the first public school

Grave of Governor Winthrop. My sister Erin, a Boston expert told me that he is not actually buried there, they rearranged the graves so they would be in a straight line, interesting huh?

Paul Revere's grave

Okay, so this may seem like an over-analyzing but I love this grave. I visited it once before, it's for "Mother Goose" (sort-of). I just love it because it is some random woman who's famous simply for telling her children stories. That particular graveyard (Granary Cemetery) was full of famous men like Paul Revere and Samuel Adams but it was also notable because of her, someone kind of like me. And I love that.

Graves of the victims of the Boston Massacre. I FINALLY remembered something from U.S. History when I saw this. Crispus Attucks was one of them and notable because he was most likely of African-American Heritage. My teacher used to point out the irony of one of the first casualties of the American Revolution, or at least a pre-cursor, dying for a country who didn't grant blacks equal rights for almost 100 years.

Personal American Revolution hero, Samuel Adams.

Washington Monument

And...my friends the squirrels. I don't know why it was important to me but I really wanted to feed them in the Boston Common.

So I did.

This is me completely and totally geeking out. It was possibly the most excited I was about seeing something famous. These are the ducklings from "Make Way for Ducklings" (okay, okay, they're bronze statues) but I was in Boston Public Gardens, I saw the Swan boats. I made believe a little island is the same one they lived on. It was great.

And the next day after 2 grueling flights in which Eliza slept 0 hours we were home!!!! Oh my gosh, I missed my kids so much I could hardly bear it (but I did, and had fun). Samantha was super-dee-duper excited to see me. Tommy gave me a big hug and then asked where his dad was. It was so good to see them.

Speaking of the kids, they had a wonderful time with Grandma Marti!!! My dad took them to "Where the Wild Things Are." My mom took them to a different play place every day as well as to the pumpkin patch. They had a blast. It was so nice of her to do it, it really was a great experience for us.