Hey Theah from Boston

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So we got up early today and went to Fenway Park. I consider it to be the perfect place for a pilgrimage: the first thing I wanted to see in this city after being away for 14 years. Even though it was closed, we still pahked the cah and went over to Yawkey Way to the souvenir shop... I promised the teacher I work with at OSM her Johnny Damon shirt, after all. I always liked Kenmore Square anyhow but man, the city looks different! I kept thinking if I moved back here, I'd have to learn it all over again.

We took Hannah to the top of the Pru (that's the Prudential Tower for all you non-natives) to the 50th floor where they have a viewing platform-slash-skywalk with an official audio tour of the city. In all the years I lived here I never did the touristy things, really, but why not now. It's so pretty from up there; it's a perfectly sunny day; the views were spectacular. I would love to come back here with Hannah so we can actually see some of those things not from 750' up in the air but at ground level. Then we did a little driving tour of the place, too: through Back Bay and Beacon Hill and past Government Center and over past Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, to the Aquarium and the North End and back around again.

And now here I am, just getting ready to finish packing and I'll be home. I feel like a stranger in this city, it's changed so significantly since I was here. Then again, I remind myself, I lived out in the burbs the last however many years I was here. But still, I like it, I always did. Today's lesson: when you don't grow with a place, it grows without you.

This concludes the tour-guide portion of our program. When you hear from me next, I will be back in Portland (the other one, on the other side of the country), bitching talking about all the usual everyday stuff. It's been good to get away, but it will be good to get back. I miss my kitties. I won't miss the $2.50 Pepsi machine outside the door here.

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On another, more sober note: hugest hugs ever to sunny_daylee. And bon voyage, wherever you are, to my cath-cousin. May there be an abundance of fresh catmint for you. Say hi to Stones for me.

Comments

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

THis makes me want to se Boston. {hugs}

SO which portlant is where?


hmmmmm....before doing anything, read the mail you'l lget form me. or better yet, if you receive on this week ,stop every single clock and let m ySirisu tell yo u a story. hmm? remember now/ 8rubs hands together* Oh it's so lovely tht the 1st adventand it'straditiona lcandle-lithgitn assocations form wen I wa ssmal aualy was YESTERDAY!!
have a great trip home and good luck catching up with everything.

[mollymcgonagall.livejournal.com]

Your entries have made me so nostalgic for a place I haven't been in 22 years!

I really loved the aquarium! I never got to actually go inside Fenway Park, though.

It's on my Christmas, someday, wish list.

Best,
J

[kait2289.livejournal.com]

Freaky. I was at the top of the Pru on Satuday. We were going to do a duck tour, but it never happened. I spent all weekend with my uncle in Boston. For the best French Toast around, go to Mike Murphy's Pub. Soo tasty!