Monday, April 26, 2010

Boston photos, Day 2

After packing up our things, we checked out of our room, loaded our bags into the car, and drove the 1/4 mile down the hill to the Riverside T station.
So begins day 2 in Boston. Clockwise starting from upper left: Sunrise in our hotel room, view of Riverside T station from the parking garage of the hotel, on the subway heading in to the city, at Starbucks on Tremont St for our morning sustenance, Custom House tower & the Holocaust memorial, Jeanne feeding some crumbs to the birds. Greedy lil things! :)
The weather was beautiful once again!!



After enjoying our coffee and muffin we headed towards the Haymarket. So many sights, smells and sounds, all at once. Vendors calling out for more produce, prices to prospective buyers, and telling people not to touch the "merchandise". The deals were not to be missed. If our car wasn't so far away, we would have bought lots of stuff. :)
Clockwise from upper left: Lettuce: what a deal!, artist at work, seafood vendor: fresh shrimp for $2/cup (it was delish!), A small piece of street art called Asaroton (meaning unswept floor), Seafood vendor shucking oysters. In the center we have 2 statues of Mayor James Michael Curley. We ended up buying a quart of strawberries for 99 cents. That was our lunch.


 After the Haymarket we headed to the North end.  Had to have a cannoli at Mike's Pastry! We took a short walk along the waterfront, then got on the T and headed over to East Boston, a place neither of us had been to.
Clockwise from upper left: the Bunker Hill monument visible from east Boston, The glass wall and tables at Mike's Pastry, tray of cannolis..YUM!, pretty tulip, Aquarium stop on the Blue Line, Custom house tower from East Boston.

Still more to come from East Boston and beyond. Including some pics from the skyline at dusk from Cambridge!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like I'm having quite the conversation with those birds hehe. I think they ate half my muffin! Love the angle you got of the Curleys! Haymarket was amazing as was all of Boston! The canolli! Mmmmmmm ~Jeanne

Anonymous said...

Looks like I'm having quite the conversation with those birds hehe. I think they ate half my muffin! Love the angle you got of the Curleys! Haymarket was amazing as was all of Boston! The canolli! Mmmmmmm ~Jeanne

Anonymous said...

Looks like I'm having quite the conversation with those birds hehe. I think they ate half my muffin! Love the angle you got of the Curleys! Haymarket was amazing as was all of Boston! The canolli! Mmmmmmm ~Jeanne

Lynn said...

You do such a nice job with these collages, Kim.

Kim said...

Jeanne: yes, I believe i gave them more than their share as well. LOL

Lynn: Thank you! It's hard to decide what pics to share, we took so many!! They are ALL my favorites! :)