As mentioned previously, Erica and had this past weekend circled for a trip to Boston. Cheap airfare is what got us up there, albeit an hour late on Friday.
The highlight of the trip was the Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit at the Museum of Science. The exhibit, which runs through April 30 before heading to Columbus, Portland, and Philly, has lots of models and costumes from the entire saga. The “science” of Star Wars galaxy is explained and compared with contemporary science from this galaxy. In some ways, we are not far off from things in the Star Wars universe, but sadly lightsaber technology remains elusive. Also, the Millennium Falcon is worth doing too. Sadly, we were not allowed to take any photos inside the Falcon.
For lunch, we hit a local pub called Mr. Dooley’s. It was exactly what you would expect out of a pub in Boston and we enjoyed it. For dinner we went to Anthony’s Pier 4 restaurant, which was a long walk from the Financial District. It was okay, I think Erica enjoyed her Lobster Newburg more than I liked my prime rib. We also had a decent breakfast at the Elephant & Castle adjacent to our hotel.
We stayed at the Club Quarters on Devonshire Street. It is a private hotel, but they put rooms out for the public on weekends via Orbitz, hotels.com, etc. The room was small, but the location was excellent, being only 2 blocks from the State Street T station.
Since this was our second trip, we were pretty familiar with the T. Using it to get from Logan Airport to downtown worked pretty well, though you have to get a shuttle from the terminal to the station.
Riding the T reminded us that while bland, our own Metro is overall more rider friendly, with signs for landmarks and places of interest, rather than just the station name. The T does get points for still using tokens (not even NYC does anymore) and the photos of the area a station serves as well. Also, the T has lots of screeching metal and smells like a subway (think NYC) whereas Metro is quieter and generally lacking odor.
The Boston Tea Party site is not really much to see yet, try again in five years when they get the museum built.
We did the touristy thing and went to the top of the Prudential building. It is well worth doing, the views are tremendous.
We did not make to the Frog Pond for ice-skating. 🙁
In short, it was a great quick trip to a great city. Hopefully, we can get there again soon. In the meantime, a day of skiing in the Poconos is looking mighty fun.
