When I was booking plane tickets for our trip, I went back and forth on the dates. I finally decided (I thought) on June 1-8. Friday to Friday. So I booked our apartment in Maine for Friday to Tuesday, then booked an apartment in Boston for Tuesday to Friday. When we were driving back to Boston on Tuesday, I was looking at the map and noticed that next to the Boston airport on my Google Maps, it had a date and a time for an upcoming flight. And the date was Thursday, June 7th. So I frantically checked my itinerary, and sure enough, our return flight was booked for Thursday. I have no idea how I got it mixed up in my head - my only thought was that maybe I had just forgotten to change the return date when doing a search and ended up booking it that way. Regardless, we ended up with just one full day in Boston, which was kind of a bummer, but we made the most of it. And fortunately, we were able to cancel the last night of our apartment in Boston.
We met my friend Brother Simpson at Harvard, where he teaches Institute. He gave us a walking tour of campus, and pointed out lots of interesting facts that now I can't remember. I remember this was the library, and I'm pretty sure it's the largest collegiate library in the world.
This was a freshman dorm, I believe. Or maybe it just held the freshman dining hall. But Brother Simpson said it's pretty cool inside and looks like Hogwarts.
Not far from campus we visited George Washington's headquarters during the Siege of Boston, which later became Henry W. Longfellow's house. It was right across the street from the LDS Institute.
We crossed over into Boston and visited the public gardens.
Then we started the Freedom Trail, including sites like Boston Common, Old North Church, Faneuil Hall, and the site of the Boston Massacre.
We took the ferry across the harbor over to Charlestown. The ferry was a cheap way to get a great view of the harbor and the skyline!
On the other side, we saw the naval shipyard, including the dry docks, and toured the USS Constitution, which is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat, famous as "Old Ironsides" from the War of 1812.
We ended the day in the North End, where we indulged in Giacomo's pasta and Modern Pastry cannoli. Brandon said the chicken parmesan was the best he'd ever had!
It was a long, whirlwind day but the weather was beautiful and as always, it's so neat to be where such important historical events took place.
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