BOSTON ALL DAY! Friday June 21st
Sunshine and toast! Great way to start the day. Kath and I wore our Boston shirts, hand made especially for our trip by my daughter Kelly, through her business PLC Designs. The shirts said: Americans – spilling tea since 1773. 
Our first stop was the Boston Tea Party museum and ships. It was by far my favorite stop in Boston (other than the actual Freedom Trail). We attended a town meeting, and understood why the good citizens of Boston found it necessary to disguise themselves as Indians (we were all given a feather to put in our hair.
Of course no one would recognize us now!).
The Sons of Liberty, aka a very rowdy and determined group of ‘Indians,’ made our way down the planks onto the ship, where we threw boxes of tea into Boston Harbor. 
The captain was very cooperative and didn’t even try to dissuade 
us. He even gave us a tour of the ship,
and explained the workings of the British East India Company, and we saw for ourselves the boxes and bails of tea stacked in the hold.
The museum had talking hologram picture frames that came to life in front of our eyes. There was a skit of two women talking about the part their husbands had played in the rebellion, and at the end the women just disappeared into thin air! However did they DO that? There is actually a wooden box that survived the dumping of the tea in 1773. Interesting story attached to it as well. Consider how long that wooden tea chest has survived! We also saw a 15 minute movie detailing not only the Tea Party but Paul Revere’s ride. (Again – check the facts. The poem is not entirely accurate!).
When we finally came above ground again, we were in Abigail’s Tea Room.
Reluctantly we left the harbor
and headed back up to the trail.
Our first stop was the Old Meeting House,
where we looked at displays and eavesdropped on a school tour to pick up interesting facts.
From there we went to King’s Chapel,
and it was by far the most informative and interesting site on the trail. We spent a lot of time in there.
We climbed the bell tower of Old North Church, 
visited Copps Hill Burying Ground, took a long hike up to Bunker Hill,
(see view of city from monument), 
toured the USS Constitution, 
then walked the entire trail – 2 ½ miles – from Bunker Hill and headed back to the Boston Commons. We went back to Quincy Market and had Boston Pizza for a late afternoon meal before finishing up the final sites. 
We found the old Corner Bookstore, and it was more than unique – with huge shelves of books, row after row, outside on the street!
You couldn’t be in Boston and not at least go past Cheers! and take a photo. So …. 
Boston Commons was a welcome sight. We were happy to reach the Longwood Inn and settle in for the night. Boston was an amazing, wonderful, historic, welcoming, comfortable city. It felt strange to think of leaving in the morning after only two days, but we had a glorious time. Boston, she was a sweet lady! And the evening and the morning were the fourth day, and the sisters saw that it was very good indeed!
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