We awoke this Thursday morning to the rhythmic clicking of Casually Kissing Cowboys’ keystrokes on the iPad as she researched a place for us to stay in Quebec. We rose our weary, burnt out, teacher selves from the air mattresses and couches we were occupying and headed outside to catch a bus downtown. As we waited in the misty morning these cynical New Yorkers bombarded our gracious host with a variety of complaints. “We’re hungry!” “We need water!” “I’m stiff!” “I’m cold!”
Luckily, our host Katie (not Teck Talkin and Walkin) and Boston complied. After a delicious breakfast in an ill designed diner, we stepped onto the sidewalk to see (gasp!) the sun!
Observe here the previous gray sky in the background of this statue of George Washington wearing a Bruins jersey:
After seeing the beautiful green parks and multiple fountains in Boston Commons and the Public Gardens we made our way to the mall. Randi loves malls. Not as much as Dollywood.
We went to the top of the Prudential Building to get a better panoramic view of the city and order a pink beverage. Actually, that wasn’t planned but it made a nice picture.
Check out Randi’s “bimbo glasses.” Want to see them again? Yeah, me too:
We took some poor quality pictures on account of the glare but we will show them to you anyway.
Just so you can see what we saw. Here is the view from the top of the building followed by a picture from the street.
We hit the road again only to learn you should never try to drive out of Boston at 4 pm on a Friday afternoon in the summer. Our next host didn’t tell us what a bad idea that was until we were already stuck in gridlock traffic. Alas, with a sugar rush from our never ending supply of pez we survived and crossed over into two states Katie has never been to, NH and ME.
We arrived at Fish’s house just in time to shower before a dinner to celebrate a very special “uncle’s” birthday. The sushi restaurant accommodated us with lots of tempura fish and some mochi ice cream complete with a surprise candle and rendition of Happy Birthday which was sung through an origami mouth that had I ❤ Jed written behind it. Having trouble visualizing that?
Upon leaving the restaurant we accidentally stumbled upon the road trip attraction statue of some western director. This happened:
What happened next was a lot of 90s cover bands and dancing. It was fun, exhausting, and afterwards we all looked like this:
Overall it was a very successful birthday. So here’s to you Uncle Jed! We will see you Mainers on the return but for now we are Canada bound!
Au Revoir!
The Gringo Gaucho
Teacher Road Trip 
Do you think Boston would get upset if we put a NY Knick jersey on the statue of George Washington.
probably. You remember how seriously those Bostonians take their sports.😊
I’m glad Katie’s going to get to Canada. I took her there once, but we were there only long enough to touch the pavement of a parking lot before I wanted to turn back (bad traffic & craziness all around).
And Katie, NH and ME are two of my favorite places. Soak it up for me!