19th Day - Boston

Another perfect day to sightsee. Off to our little cafe for Brekky before we headed out to our tour trolley for the second day of three. Our first stop was at a big shopping centre. The Galleria. This had a Macy's and a Sears but we only looked briefly in Sears where I bought 2 pairs of shoes and a black skivy which I might need further north as I did not bring much in winter clothes. So far we have only been wearing our summer things with a spray jacket or light cardie. Before the shops opened at 10 we saw that there was a boat cruise up the Charles R from the back of the S.Centre so we went on that for an hour ($13) and found it gave us a totally different perspective of the city of some 700,000. For lunch we finally came by a Cheesecake Factory restaurant at a time when we were hungry and enjoyed a pizza and a slice of Lemoncello cake (both shared) and was that cake something. Our next stop was the very tall Prudential Building where we took the lift to the 50th floor for yet another view of the city. It is really amazing to know how old these buildings are with some dating from the 1700's. The tour guides are so full of info on the history that it is mind boggling. After dinner last night we tried to follow the Freedom Trail back to our hotel but for some reason it petered out so we might do some of it tomorrow when we visit Bunker Hill. When we were looking at accommodation here about 6 months ago, we couldn't understand why a lot was booked out and also quite expensive. Someone told us today it is because of all the graduations taking place at all the Universities and Colleges as their semester goes from Sept. to May. We returned back to our accommodation at 5.00pm with no further plans for today. It is now nearly 7.00pm and sun is still high in the sky. Included in the attached photos from the high building is the Stadium of the Red Sox Baseball Team and they happen to be playing tonight but very difficult to get tickets.