Boston - tourist day!

Since we left a day early for our trip to Boston, we had a whole day free for sight seeing.  We started out our day with delicious waffles and muffins at the hotel, and then off on the subway (the T) into Boston.

We headed to our first destination, a Duck Tour.  On the way to the tour we got to stroll down these beautiful streets. 

The tour is done on this cool vehicle that goes on both land and sea.  It was great way to see the whole city.  Last year when we went to Boston we didn't get to see much at all.  We drove our car around the town and really overpaid on parking.  It wasn't that much fun.  But this time I decided to "city saavy" and get a pass for the T for the weekend.  The tour gave us lots of ideas on places to visit.

Here we go into the water!  We went into the Charles River.

One of the highlights of the tour was when the tour guide (Snags McTangles) let the kids drive the boat around the river.  All of the kids except for Zachary wanted to do it.  Zack was all concerned about safety or some silly thing like that :)

We also had lunch in the high priced area of town, Newbury street.  Next stop was the finish line for some photos.  This might be the closest I ever get to running over the finish line, so I need to commemorate it!

 We then took a tour of the USS Constitution, aka Old Iron Sides.  It was a very interesting tour.

The kids liked seeing all of those cannons on the boat. 

We are pros at riding the subway now!

For dinner we ended up in Chinatown.  It was amazing how many things we could see by just hoping on the T.  

The kids gave chopsticks a try.  Sydney ate a large portion of her dinner with the chopsticks. 

The last event of the night was meeting up with all of the people from the Runners World forum at Beer Works.  It was a great event for Alan as he got to meet some of the people in person that he has been talking with for months now during his training.

 The kids did a good job of keeping themselves entertained by playing pool while we chatted.