On 9/7, we walked over to the Boston Commons park and had a stroll around the beautiful grounds. The antics of the pigeons and squirrels were funny to watch, and lots of sleeping ducks surrounded the banks of the pond. We bought tickets to a Freedom Trail walk which was great! Our walk was only an actual mile in length but covered a ton of things! There is so much history here, it was a lot to absorb! Since I recall almost zero about what I may have learned in high school on these subjects, it was almost all new information to me, and these walking tours are definitely a more effective way for me to learn these things rather than just reading words from a page. To walk the trail, to see and walk among the gravestones of these historical figures as the stories are told is much more engaging. We then had lunch at a little pub across from the main cemetery we toured, John finally got his Boston baked beans! They were really delicious! They use molasses rather than the usual brown sugar, and it is a really rich flavor, and we plan on trying to make these at home sometime this fall.
After the long walk back to the B&B to R&R, we then headed out to Fenway Stadium by way of the Boston Gardens (really awesome community garden spaces) to see the RedSox versus Tampa Bay! There are few things John enjoys more than travel and baseball, so he gets excited for each and every stadium we visit, but for him to see Fenway, and The Green Monster, is something really special that he has dreamed about since he was wee! He was so giddy it was so cute! And even though we missed seeing the Sox versus the Twins by about a week, we got to see Nelson Cruz, a former Twin who just joined TB recently, hit almost a full cycle! He hit two home runs, one to deep center and the other straight over the Green Monster (the big back wall of the stadium), a single and a double, and TB creamed the Sox. I felt bad for the Sox fans, but we had a blast!
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