Boston - Day 6

Hi,





Our last full day!! Sad? Sort of, but on the other hand the hotel room is small and without fresh air, so won't be sorry to leave that behind. This morning whilst the loud disturbing neighbours had gone, they had kindly left their alarm set for 5.55 so that rang for an hour!! Touching reminder of their presence!!

I was up early and eventually roused Jon so that we started our day at the Flat Black at around 8. 30 ish. Excellent flat white coffees again after a weekend without and we discussed our options for the day. We decided on the Boston Library followed by lunch at Figs on Charles road. Heartily recommended for excellent food particularly pizza's. We only allow ourselves one pizza a week so it has got to be good - therefore research is important. So the Boston Library has some interesting features firstly it is huge and was intended to be the largest library in the US. Not sure that it retains that title now. It has some fantastic features including some murals by John Singer Sargent and the hugest reference library I have ever seen. On the down side there were parts of it that we uncared for and tatty - but this didn't detract from the magnificence of the building. I particularly like the newer part where the walls were covered in embroidered wall hanging depicting the worlds changes and mans relationship to nature and the planet.



I left Jon reading whilst I went to chase a DVD order at Barnes at Nobel. No luck there though and we meet up again at Figs, where on ordering our Pizza's the waitress kindly told us we would probably manage one between the two of us as the are 16"/ Phew thank god she did, so we had two different toppings and got stuck in. It did not defeat us until afterwards when we were only good to flop on the bed for a couple of hours moaning at the walls. However, refreshed we walked back up to Trinity church and admired both the garden and the stained glass windows. A stroll down Newbury street followed desperately trying to find something to bring home for Georgina. No luck. Then suddenly, I was walked out and just had to stop. 6 days of energetically walking the streets of Boston had finally caught up with me and I flopped onto a bench in the Prudential Centre (there are worse places!!) and Jon left me there bravely eating some Ben and Jerry's whilst he spent $12 to go to the very top of the building. He found me still eating - I did confess I'd gone back for seconds - with my energy restored we caught the T back via the Whole Foods store where Jon stocked up for his supper.

Today I am booked into the Aveda store for a hair cut and manicure. Only way I know to end a holiday. You may be wondering about the knitting. Well, this has taken a bit of a back seat primarily due to the lack of i-pod and listening material to keep me amused whilst knitting and secondly I went wrong.

Bye for now.