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Boston Bonanza
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In the morning we had a great breakfast buffet at the hotel, and got directions to the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum. The hotel's staff was kind enough to give us a few moments on guests' computer in the lobby to get directions.
Since my parents go to the museum every time they are in Boston, we naturally assumed that they will know how to get around.
Well...never assume.
Of course we got lost trying to get through the small, curvy streets, and just when we were about to give up, we found it.
Asking my parents how they can not know how to get there, since they've been there at least seven or eight times, the answer was: "we get lost every time".
Silly us.
The museum itself is beautiful; it belongs to a lady who collected any antiquity under the sun, from Mexicans tiles to Rembrandt. We spent several hours there, and could spend several more days. It's definitely worth a stop, and to get the self guided tour. Cost of entry is around $20, and if your name is Isabella, you get a free lifetime pass.
We exited the museum and went back to Quincy Market area. Again we decided to take the subway, and walked to the Holocaust Memorial, a very moving tribute to the victims, if you're in the area (walking distance from Quincy Market) you should stop by for a few minutes.
At this time, my wife decided to help some other tourists who asked her for direction, and sent them off in a completely wrong direction. We take many trips, and hate when it happens to us, but I have to admit it was funny then and even funnier when we remember it now.
We ate lunch at Cheers, just for the novelty. Basically a burger joint which serves drinks and looks like the Cheers set. Nothing special about the food, or the beer, but we had to try, just to say we did. Still, we had a good time.
We kept walking around Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall, there are many shops in the area, otherwise there is not much to do there, except eat and drink. We wanted to get to Mystic, CT to eat dinner so we left Boston early enough for the 2.5 hours drive.
Mystic is a beautiful little town. Very picturesque with many artist galleries, boats, beautiful houses ... and everybody smokes. We ate at a wonderful restaurant called S&P Oyster Company. They treated us well, gave us a large table and brought out the kids meal before the others. The food was excellent, you can probably not go wrong with any seafood choice on the menu, and even our daughter's entrée from the kids menu was fantastic.
And no, we didn't try the pizza.
We got home late, but happy after a great weekend.
We certainly have to go back to Boston to see the historic sites, and certainly too Mystic for a weekend of R&R.
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