Boston

Our balcony was of little value in Boston. We were next to the pier but facing a dock building. If we turned just right we could see the Boston Harbor. The day was quite pleasant and we took the public transit into town. The bus took us underground to the subway, so we didn’t have to walk down the stair to get on. The entire trip downtown cost $2 each. We came up at the beginning of the Freedom Trail. We walked up to the Paul Revere House which took about 3 hours because of the stops at other points of history. We went to Faneuil Hall where we thought we had eaten in 1975. We never found the restaurant, so it might have been closed. After all it has been 35 years. Evelyn was especially tired and needed to rest. We returned to the ship a bit earlier than we had to. The Freedom Trail is marked by a red line of a defined set of bricks 3 wide throughout the historic part of town. We saw where the original Boston Tea party was planned and a statue of Samuel Adams in the Faneuil square. I sadly thought, “This statue will be replaced by one of Karl Marx or Fidel Castro in the future”. I can only hope the modern tea party can stop this spiral toward Marxism. Of course that statue will be short lived and replaced by one of Mohammed. I got on the computer and published some blog entries until time for dinner. We sat with a couple from Brisbane, Australia and another from near London, England. They have a bit of distortion about our health care system and were surprised to learn that poor people are not turned away from hospitals. We shared with them the amount that the hospital in Texas writes off each month because many people are too poor to pay. We went to the show in the Stardust Theater and enjoyed the staff filling their mouths with water and pretending to be fountains. They sprayed all over each other. Evelyn went to the chocolate buffet as is her custom. I even ate a small portion. The buffets used to be very elegant but are now pretty common. The offerings are not even as good as they were just 3 years ago. We were unimpressed and went to bed.