Day 16 - Boston

Our neighbours had gone and Julian slept until 7:15am but woke up wet and unhappy (rightly so). We managed the showers (yay), pack up and breakfast in 2hours.  We called our accomodation in Boston to see if we could drop our bags off early at the apartment but were told we couldn't.  They did allow us to use their other location to store them for the 2hours until our apartment was "ready".

So we set Jane (GPS) up and she decided that we would take the same route back to Boston.   We had to return the rental car back at 1pm so we decided not to deviate from Janes decision.  The drive was 2.5hours and apart from a friendly flash from the local cops, it was uneventful.

 New Hampshire number plate "Live Free or Die"- New Jersey already had "The Garden State".

Julian swatting for the test when he gets back to childcare.

Boston skyline - this time with blue skies.

When we got into Boston which included some poor decisions on Janes part, we found the place where we could drop off our bags.  So much luggage that poor Steve had to haul up and down stairs!  Then we got back in the car to drop it off at Avis in the city.  No problem there and the nice lady suggested a place across the road to have lunch - Au Bon Pain.

We had excellent Clam chowder, salad and a bagel which Julian didn't want.

We had a bit of time to kill until our apartment was ready at 3pm, so we went to the local mall Copley Place and let Julian ride the escalators and walk from end to end.  Very ritzy place this - Louis Vuitton, Neiman Marcus, Barneys, Bally etc.  We also found a Starbucks for another hot chocolate and bought more straws for Julians cup as he is chewing the end off the first one.

It was a short walk back to the Inn and they were very good.  They helped us with our bags and got us a Taxi which we jammed full of bags!  The ride to the apartment was straight forward and the driver did very well as the apartment is in a laneway which is barely wider than a car.  It was a struggle to get out without banging the car door on a fence or wall.

The apartment was on level 3 which was at the top of a walkup - so Steve had to haul the bags up even more staircases.  These were narrow and damn dangerous!  Inside the "toddler friendly" apartment was another 2 staircases - one going to the bedroom and then another floor up to the roof top deck.  This is the view from the deck:

Nice eh?
We didn't like the place when we arrived but that may have been tiredness.  We hate stairs!  Also the place is filled with skylights without blinds - damn killer when the sun is up around 5am.  Steve found a fix for one which we will show you tomorrow.  Julian was very reluctant to take a nap but we forced it upon him and he slept for 45mins - boy he needed it!

For dinner we walked about 100m around the corner and down the road to The Upper Crust, a pizza joint with good reviews.  We bought a vege pizza and added Chicken and got it Take Out.  We ate it on the roof top deck:

Tomorrow will hopefully be low-key, probably a walk around The Freedom Trail and a play in Boston Common.