Touring Harvard and Downtown Boston

Today I woke up at 7:30am and while everyone was still sleeping went on a short run knowing it would really be short. It was a little cold outside and sprinkling off and on a little. It rained pretty bad last night. I did a small loop around Braintree and ended up walking and running about 3.5 miles.

When I got back Cathi was still sleeping and Bill had gone on his own walk. We got dressed and went out for breakfast at a nice little diner. Bill, Roceil and Cathi all gave the waitress great compliments and Cathi was trying to talk the waitress into running for fitness. It was funny how close they were getting to this stranger. I ordered oatmeal with fruit and raisin toast. It was delicious. Then we got on the train for Harvard.

We walked around Harvard square and over to the library building and through the dorms. We saw people rowing in the Charles River. We then walked over to the place where Bill and Roceil stayed when they were here going to Grad School. It was alot of walking. We went back to Downtown Crossing and took a "Duck Tour". This was a large bus type vehicle with a propeller in the back which converted into a boat. It was very cool. The driver told us about all the famous places and a history of the city, but there was so much to take in that I forgot most of it and it was trivial stuff anyway.

The most interesting thing he said was that there was a huge tank many years ago that stored molasses. The guys who designed the tank didn't do a very good job with the design and when it got hot it built up a huge amount of pressure and the tank blew up and it was a huge blast and made a massive mess. There was molasses everywhere.

The locals here recently had some scary stuff happen. A student from Boston University was just caught this week in connection with a couple of murders of prostitutes. Well that was big in the news this week where this guy was caught and charged with the murders.

After that we went to a huge mall downtown and went to a fast food place where I got the best salad! It really hit the spot. Cathi bought about 4 more cookies including the one that came with the meal. I also gave her mine, so she had plenty to snack on. She's going to need a deal at the rate she's going, but she's on vacation and she just ran a marathon so I'm not going to give her grief.

We made our way back to Braintree after which we then drove the car which we left at the Motel 6, down to Falmouth.


We then went to bed.