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7:30am - We are in Massachusetts now. Well, we've been here since 11:30
last night. The place we slept at is Holiday Inn. Dad had asked for a room
with two queen beds but since he was a member of some club they automatically
upgraded to a suite and it had a king-size been and a little couch bed.
Guess who got the couch bed! Oh, well. We are fixin' to go to the Basketball
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9:30am - They finally let us into the Basketball Hall of Fame. The brochure
says they open at 9:00am but the brochure is wrong. This place is really
cool! They have so much stuff! We took pictures next to Tim Duncan's cardboard
stand up model and Larry Bird's statue and Michael Jordan's and
David Robinson's memorabilia. We walked in the footsteps of Bob Lanier (size 22), shot hoops
at several baskets they had set up, and tried to reach the point where
Michael Jordan can touch. Rachel even got to slam dunk the basketball on
the simulation machine and view the Olympic History
Exhibit. We had an all around good time. We recommended this
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11:05am - We are on our way to Boston on the turnpike. The tree here
are huge! They are so pretty right now, the must be gorgeous in the fall
when the colors change. We keep seeing the quaint, New Englandy houses.
One had a clothesline out the second floor window - the kind that you pull
in from a wheel and pulley. The temperature is great. |
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12:10pm - Twenty miles from Boston (says Dad). There are already some
big buildings and a Burger King but still lots of big trees. I think they
are amazing! I can't stop looking at everything. On the sides of the road,
there are big, jagged, reddish rocks with wild flowers growing out of them. |
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12:30pm - We're in Boston. I love new cities. In Boston, we walk the
Freedom Trail and see the First Church in Boston (the King's Church), the
Paul Revere house, the USS Constitution and more. There were so many
things it was hard to take it all in. We also saw the gravesites of Samuel Adams, John
Hancock
and Paul Revere and the site of the Boston Massacre. Lot's of history and lots
of walking as we followed the convenient red line from site to
site. |
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The best
place along the Freedom Trail was the USS Constitution (one of the few free places) and the
nautical museum next to it. And we had a great ride on the Harbor Trolley
- $1 takes you back across Boston harbor to downtown. |
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5:30pm - We leave Boston and head south towards Cape Cod. We never hit
the traffic jams that we feared. When we get to Plymouth we take an unplanned
excursion to the coastline and what do we see? The Plymouth Rock. It was
really cool! We also saw the Mayflower II, a replica of the original. We
decided to eat there and found this little restaurant right on the ocean side
called Bert's Cove that served sea food. We had clam chowder, delicious
bread, lobster bisque and fried crab cakes. All was good! Then we drove
through a few more villages before heading back to the highway. |
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9:01pm - We are on Cape Cod and almost to Eastham. We find our hotel,
the Town Crier. The people are nice to have the room open for us since
we arrive late. It is really funny because absolutely nothing in our room
matches: the bedspreads are brown with beige flower patterns, the curtains
are black with primary colored lines swirling around them, and there is
a painting of a lady and a bunch of parrots on the wall. Well, the good
thing is at least there are two real beds, not hideaways. Good night. |
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