Wrapping Up Rebecca's Graduation Trip

Wednesday morning we once again went to Thornton's for breakfast.  We had the waiter from lunch our first day in Boston and he remembered us....  It was sort of like we were going to a place "where everybody knows your name...."  We chatted with him briefly and had another great breakfast before heading out on our list of places to visit that day.

The first thing we had to knock out was Trinity Church.  So we walked there first.  It's a beautiful old church in the middle of Boston surrounded by big glass office buildings.  We had driven by the church a couple of times on the Trolley, in fact the picture to the right was taken on Monday from the Trolley as we passed but didn't have time to get off.  We walked around the area briefly mostly just because we were slightly disoriented. There is a fee to go into the church.  I think we paid $8 per person.  Most days they have a guided tour once or twice during the day.  Check the website before you go for tour times.

After leaving Trinity, we went back over to Hunnington Ave. to visit the Christian Science monstrosity that we had been walking past all week.  As we drove past in the Trolley on Tuesday, the driver pointed out the reflection pool where if a person walks in just the right place, it can look as though they are walking on water.  So it was something we had to try.  We wanted to go inside and see the famous pipe organ, but when we tried to enter, we were told that we couldn't until 1:00 PM and we had to be at the airport by then.  That was not an option.  So we ended up just taking pictures outside and then heading back to our hotel to get our things and checkout.

Upon checking out of the hotel, we took a taxi to Logan airport. We ate lunch at the airport, it was uneventful, just typical airport food.  On the way home we had a single stop in Washington DC at Dulles airport to change planes.  I've never been to DC before, so I'm thinking this counts as a trip to our nations capital even though I never left the airport.

Walking on water?  Not so much....

This looks a little more like walking on water....

They wouldn't let us in!

Kids and a few adults playing in the fountains.

The one thing I can tell you about Dulles airport is that those people need to invest in a freaking moving sidewalk.  When a person has been traipsing around New York and Boston for five and a half days, the last thing they want to do is walk a mile or two through an airport carrying a bunch of luggage and in a hurry.  I'm not really sure why we were in such a hurry, we had two hours to change flights, but Rebecca was rushing and rather than walk alone, I was trying to keep up with her.  So we practically sprinted to our next gate and then sat there and waited for a few hours....  Ugh!

We were back in Dallas by 9:45 or so on Wednesday night and at my house by 10:30.  Thursday we met Rebecca's Mom in Athens so that Rebecca could get home.  Overall, it was a great trip.  We've been back for a week now and I feel like I have almost recovered.  I have one nephew left to take on a graduation trip and then I will be done.  He won't graduate until 2015 and I am holding out hope that he will agree to do a rafting trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.  But we'll see.  I've been trying to get one of them to agree to that for about 4 years with no luck.

Try to stay cool today!  Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike What day is it Mike?