Boston

Back on the bus and off to Boston after breakfast. We drove through cityscapes until ending up in Boston. We drove around looking at parks and buildings for a while and ended up near the shopping district downtown. I should take the time to note that we were able to get a good look at the statue of the Civil War General Hooker. It was good to see the statue to the man who lent his name to an entire class of entertainers.Since it was close to lunchtime, we hunted up a restaurant with a cheap lobster dinner for Stacey. I had chicken livers as I don't care for lobster. As much as I like chicken livers, 4 people couldn't eat that much liver.
We headed back to where the bus dropped us off to an outdoor market. We bought seckel pears, a coconut and some kind of brown thing that Stacey is threatening to cook. We found a magnificent cheese shop and bought several cheeses that we had never seen before. I can highly recommend Fromager D'Affinois . Buy it in small amounts. If you ate as much as you really wanted, I'm pretty sure it would kill you. It's a Brie-like cheese but with a Much higher fat content. The Moursin and Old Goat Gouda were great, too.
With time to kill, we went to the regular shopping area but it was all pretty normal stuff. There was a bar that was a replica of Cheers! but Norm wasn't there.
Back on the bus to the Boston Navy Yard, home of the U.S.S.Constitution. We took a walk through the museum which was ok but the ship is under reconstruction again and the security to enter it is airport level now so there wasn't time for a tour. They were rebuilding the gundeck and all the cannons were lined up on the wharf. That was cool but no firing allowed.
Back on the bus and out of Boston via The Big Dig, the overcost, long delayed and generally unsafe tunnel under the river to our motel.