New England ~ Boston ~ Saturday

The trip to New England started out a little worrisome for me. See, there was a hurricane heading to the same coast line and possibly the same city that we were. After much anguish and the making of a hurricane preparedness kit...we were on our way!!

Packed and ready to go!!

You might be wondering what was in my hurricane preparedness kit. Well, the list follows. Peanut butter, saltines, kleenex, candles, lighters, batteries (AAA and AA), 2 flash lights, dried fruit, fruit snacks, granola bars, deck of cards, book light.

I was NOT about to be stuck in a city I didn't know, in a hotel, with nothing to eat - do - or see. Jason thought I was crazy but I will tell you we used EVERYTHING in that pack...even if not during the hurricane ;-)

Our flight was decent. It was on time, the guy sitting next to me was skinny and Jason and I spent most of the time listening to a Podcast that he loves...and now I like.

Podcast from a Seattle radio station that Jason loves.

Upon arriving in Boston we took an {expensive} cab ride to our hotel, The Newbury Guest House. We actually really liked our hotel. It was a few blocks from many subway lines and we could walk just about anywhere. The one thing we didn't like was the breakfast - it was pretty terrible. After a quick rinse we were off to dinner and hopefully the Red Sox game. We'd been hearing since we got there that the Sox game might be cancelled because of rain but then when we were at dinner they announced that they were going ahead with the game - and we figured we better go!! We had dinner at Cafe 47. It was amazing...thanks Laura for the recommendation.

After dinner we started the drizzly and humid walk over to Fenway Park. Since the storm was coming we had a very interesting, unique, and different experience at Fenway then we would have had any other day, ever.  There was, by my estimates, under 10,000 people there and Fenway can hold over 35,000. We ended up sitting a portion of the game with May, Matt, and their family. We sat under cover...which was nice. The game was a rather slow one, with a few rain delays, but we figured if we were there we might as well make the most of it. We walked around the park, we sat in a few different spots, and just enjoyed being there!

A composition of all the emblems from the Sox history.

The view where we sat with Matt and May

Fenway original seats

The green monster.

Us at Fenway!!

We went and sat down in some seats by first base.

We probably could have gotten closer but this was okay :)

so true. It was a very special place to be.

View from the bottom of the bleachers.

Outside Fenway - heading home. It was 11pm and we were tired!!

Jason outside Fenway.