Wowzers, what a weekend!
Jul. 5th, 2005 11:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neebsThis weekend was phenomenal. Yes, it was really that good.
I took Friday off and G and I drove up to Boston. WOO Boston! We left around 7am and even with an hour stop for lunch, we made it to our hotel by 3:30ish. We were staying about 45 mins from Boston near Concord, so after we checked in we checked out a map and decided to do some random touring. We ended up in Concord and we saw the monument where "the shot heard 'round the world" took place--basically, the shot that started the revolutionary war. It was so neat to be in such a historically significant place the weekend of July 4th!
Saturday we had pre-bought tickets to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts where Ralph Lauren's AMAZING car collection was on show. Here's the link to that info (Speed, Style, and Beauty) and here's a link to some photos that other people took of the cars. When I get mine posted, I'll put that up for y'all to check out. After the museum, we did part of the Freedom Trail through downtown Boston and ended at Paul Revere's House in Little Italy. After a SO yummy Italian dinner, we headed back to Quincy Market to check out some shopping and have some ice cream.
On Sunday, we met up with a friend of G's and 2 of his friends and we all went down to Newport, RI. WOOO BEACH!! Unfortunately, I left the sunblock at our hotel, about 2 1/2 hours away. Fortunately, we got there around 1:30ish, so we didn't get too much of a sunburn. After the beach, we walked around Newport for a bit and got dinner. Then we drove down Ocean Drive, which has all of the holy-freaking-cow-these-are-the-biggest-houses-I've-ever-seen-in-my-LIFE mansions. And we saw the sunset. Pretty. Then we headed over to some park and got to see fireworks over the harbour. AWESOME!!!!!!! G and I got back to the hotel pretty late and we were exhausted.
Yesterday we got up and headed back to MD. My dad gave us directions home that let us totally bypass NYC, which was great in terms of traffic. After dinner at G's uncle's house, we headed back home. We caught the tail end of Wheaton fireworks, then hauled all my stuff up to my room and looked at my digital pics, a lot of which turned out great.
All in all, a FABULOUS trip!!!! It was just great.
I took Friday off and G and I drove up to Boston. WOO Boston! We left around 7am and even with an hour stop for lunch, we made it to our hotel by 3:30ish. We were staying about 45 mins from Boston near Concord, so after we checked in we checked out a map and decided to do some random touring. We ended up in Concord and we saw the monument where "the shot heard 'round the world" took place--basically, the shot that started the revolutionary war. It was so neat to be in such a historically significant place the weekend of July 4th!
Saturday we had pre-bought tickets to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts where Ralph Lauren's AMAZING car collection was on show. Here's the link to that info (Speed, Style, and Beauty) and here's a link to some photos that other people took of the cars. When I get mine posted, I'll put that up for y'all to check out. After the museum, we did part of the Freedom Trail through downtown Boston and ended at Paul Revere's House in Little Italy. After a SO yummy Italian dinner, we headed back to Quincy Market to check out some shopping and have some ice cream.
On Sunday, we met up with a friend of G's and 2 of his friends and we all went down to Newport, RI. WOOO BEACH!! Unfortunately, I left the sunblock at our hotel, about 2 1/2 hours away. Fortunately, we got there around 1:30ish, so we didn't get too much of a sunburn. After the beach, we walked around Newport for a bit and got dinner. Then we drove down Ocean Drive, which has all of the holy-freaking-cow-these-are-the-biggest-houses-I've-ever-seen-in-my-LIFE mansions. And we saw the sunset. Pretty. Then we headed over to some park and got to see fireworks over the harbour. AWESOME!!!!!!! G and I got back to the hotel pretty late and we were exhausted.
Yesterday we got up and headed back to MD. My dad gave us directions home that let us totally bypass NYC, which was great in terms of traffic. After dinner at G's uncle's house, we headed back home. We caught the tail end of Wheaton fireworks, then hauled all my stuff up to my room and looked at my digital pics, a lot of which turned out great.
All in all, a FABULOUS trip!!!! It was just great.
