Exploring our surroundings
We've done a few things since we moved here, but it feels like we've been sitting around watching Avatar more than anything.
Last weekend we walked the Freedom Trail and saw the cemetary where Sam Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, and other notable Revolutionary War guys are buried. Bunker Hill was apparently under construction, so we couldn't actually go into the area, which was annoying because we walked the 2 1/2 miles to get there for pretty much nothing. There were a lot of cool places along the way, of course, like the church that lit the "one if by land, 2 if by sea" lamps for Paul Revere's ride, etc. We'll have to go back again soon.
We've wandered the Harvard campus a few times now. It's definitely screaming prestige and intimidation (along with "I cost a cubic buttload for anyone to attend here"), but it's a neat place to hang around. Last time we were there, we sat on the steps of one of the buildings watching a huge crowd of Asian tourists, each and every one of them, take a picture with the statue of Harvard himself. You'd think a group picture would suffice... Across the campus from us was this guy feeding squirrels out of a bag he had on his hip. Those squirrels had the guy surrounded. Any normal person would freak out and flail like an idiot if a squirrel started climbing up their leg; this guy had them doing that and then eating out of his hand while they were claw-attached to his pant leg. I hope for his sake he was wearing a nut cup.
Oh, during that human-melting heat wave we had last week, we finally bought a window air conditioner. It is the best purchase I have ever made in my 23 years of existence on this earth. The windows in our room are too small to put it in, so we had to put it in the hallway and re-route the air around the corner into our room with the fan we found here. It's working so far, but we found out today that our landlord now wants to charge us $10 a month for having the thing. It's a b.s. charge that she never put in our lease contract, nor did she say anything about it when we asked her permission to buy it in the first place, so we legally are not bound to paying that.
Other than that, we're just wandering around trying to become familiar with the city while avoiding driving as much as humanly possible. We're curious, not suicidal.
Last weekend we walked the Freedom Trail and saw the cemetary where Sam Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, and other notable Revolutionary War guys are buried. Bunker Hill was apparently under construction, so we couldn't actually go into the area, which was annoying because we walked the 2 1/2 miles to get there for pretty much nothing. There were a lot of cool places along the way, of course, like the church that lit the "one if by land, 2 if by sea" lamps for Paul Revere's ride, etc. We'll have to go back again soon.
We've wandered the Harvard campus a few times now. It's definitely screaming prestige and intimidation (along with "I cost a cubic buttload for anyone to attend here"), but it's a neat place to hang around. Last time we were there, we sat on the steps of one of the buildings watching a huge crowd of Asian tourists, each and every one of them, take a picture with the statue of Harvard himself. You'd think a group picture would suffice... Across the campus from us was this guy feeding squirrels out of a bag he had on his hip. Those squirrels had the guy surrounded. Any normal person would freak out and flail like an idiot if a squirrel started climbing up their leg; this guy had them doing that and then eating out of his hand while they were claw-attached to his pant leg. I hope for his sake he was wearing a nut cup.
Oh, during that human-melting heat wave we had last week, we finally bought a window air conditioner. It is the best purchase I have ever made in my 23 years of existence on this earth. The windows in our room are too small to put it in, so we had to put it in the hallway and re-route the air around the corner into our room with the fan we found here. It's working so far, but we found out today that our landlord now wants to charge us $10 a month for having the thing. It's a b.s. charge that she never put in our lease contract, nor did she say anything about it when we asked her permission to buy it in the first place, so we legally are not bound to paying that.
Other than that, we're just wandering around trying to become familiar with the city while avoiding driving as much as humanly possible. We're curious, not suicidal.
posted by kitty Cat | 12:29 PM
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Just so you know that statue of John Harvard is also called the three lies, John Harvard was not the founder of Harvard, that's not actually John Harvard but a student that posed for the statue and the dates are wrong on there... Also there are at least 90 some Dunkin' Donuts in Rhode Island alone so I can imagine how many there are in Boston.... Also there is an awesome bookstore in Cambridge that if you buy a foot of books you get 15% off all the books you got, it's pretty sweet!!! I was in Boston earlier this summer...
That's awesome that the prestigous campus such as Harvard would have a bogus statue like that!
I'll have to check out that bookstore, I'd imagine I might have about a foot of books to buy for school this fall, 15% off would be nice.
I don't think that in my entire existence I have ever consumed donuts in the frequency that I am here. It used to be maybe once a month if the caf at Luther had 'em, now it's a couple of times a week! Good think Beantown requires a little more walking around...
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