Day 18 - Boston, Boston Common, USS Constitution

OMG what a night!  Julian woke every 1.5hours (FOUR times total) and was awake from 1:30 to 4:08am.  The damn light woke us early again and we were all a bit grumpy this morning.  We have no idea what was up with him as he seemed fine.

Thankfully we had a very cruisey day planned and made it out of the house just before 10am.  It is actually only 1.5blocks walk to Boston Common for us and Julian loves every minute of it.

We walked around the Common at bit but Julian was already taking standing breaks.  Soon after we started the walk home, he wanted to be carried.

We gave him an early lunch and then put him down to rest.  He slept for 3.5hours!  Steve and I finally had a chance to read and I started The Hunger Games (Thank you Faye) and it really is a riveting read. When Julian woke, he was in an excellent mood as it was 3pm and we wanted to see Old Ironsides (the USS Constitution sailing ship) today.  We decided to take a taxi instead of walking, to save time and this turned out to be a wise choice as a thunderstorm began halfway there.  When we arrived we threw Julian in the stroller (with rainhood) and made for the USS Constitution museum.  We had look around in there and thankfully the skies cleared to allow us to go and look at the ship.

 A World War II US Navy destroyer in dry dock.

 The storm as it rolled past the dock.

 The USS Constitution

 Julian and Steve on the gun deck.

Julian standing at attention in front of his gun - this cracked me up!

Julian and Steve in the TIGHT sleeping quarters.

 The pots which held the embers to light the wick of the cannons.

We then hopped off the ship and had a look at another museum dedicated to the Charleston Naval Dockyards.  Then we were going to walk home but another thunderstorm was visible and we spotted a taxi outside, so we grabbed it.

 I took this photo of the Bunker-Hill monument as I was climbing in to the taxi.  It marks the spot of a battle between some Bostonians and the English during the War of Independence (which the Brits won but lost 1200 soldiers in the process).

Once again the taxi ride was worth the cash as the heavens opened and it BUCKETED down - it was like a downpour in the tropics!  We were so happy to be inside a car as everyone outside was soaked!

We got home and gave Julian his dinner.  We had decided on Pizza again from Upper Crust as it was pretty good.  They screwed up this time and even though Steve was sitting right there, they lost the pizza and when they found it, it was cold.  Yay. 

This is it halfway through - look at all that oil!  It may have tasted good hot...

Fingers crossed Julian sleeps tonight.  Tomorrow we are leaving and that will take up all of our energy!  Flight leaves Boston 4:50pm and we arrive in Melbourne 8:00am Monday.