This past weekend, I finally got to use my birthday gift from last year, a trip to Boston to see the White Sox take on the Red Sox with Danny and Michael.  The trip started early Saturday morning, with a trip to O’Hare to catch a 6 AM flight.  After arriving in Boston, we took a bus and a train to get to the Museum of Science, where we spent most of the morning.

With food on our mind, we wandered back over towards where we got off the train and found ourselves in the Beacon Hill neighborhood, where we ended up at The Paramount, rated as one of the 10 best breakfast spots in Boston.  A long wait through the oddly run restaurant, where you order and get your food prior to being seated, ended up in a decent meal.

After eating, we headed to our hotel, which was located in the medical district.  We checked in and relaxed for a bit, before deciding on going for ice cream prior to heading to Fenway Park.  Like nearly everywhere else we went, the ice cream shop was a little hole in the wall, but it certainly served its purpose.  From there, it was short walk up Brookline to the ballpark, which was… a little underwhelming.  From the outside, you could barely tell that it was a stadium.  Michael even asked where it was as we were standing outside it.

The game went about as you would expect.  With James Shields on the mound, the White Sox did not put up much of a fight.  We were sitting down the left field line, with a good view of the Green Monster.  The seats, which may or may not date back to the stadium’s opening in 1912, were not really designed for people well over 6 feet tall, so there was a lot of uncomfortable shifting as our knees were smooshed in to the seats in front of us.

After the game, we went back to the hotel and called it a night.  Sunday morning, we headed out once again in search of breakfast.  This time, we ended up at Thornton’s Restaurant, again listed on many top 10 lists for breakfast.  Another wait, though in a more traditional manner, before we enjoyed a nice breakfast.  After a quick Uber back to the hotel, we gathered up our belongings and checked out of the hotel.  Our first stop was just down the street, at Harvard Medical School, where we posed for pictures.

From there, we headed to Skywalk Boston, their version of the observation deck at Sears Tower.  It was only on the 50th floor, so the effect was a little different, but we did get to see the majority of the area.  From there, it was another Uber over to the harbor to see the Boston Tea Party museum.  The 2 hour experience took us through the town meeting where the “attack” was planned, on to the boat to throw the tea in to the harbor, and then through a movie and other artifacts from one of the most famous events in American history.

That pretty much finished our time in the city.  A quick trip to the train station put us on a bus to the airport, where we (eventually) boarded a flight home.  We arrived an hour late, putting us well past dinner time, and, having not eaten since breakfast, we were all a little peckish.  A stop at the Weber Grill fixed all of that, thanks to a full slab of ribs and half of a filet mignon.

All told, it was a good trip to a city I’ve never been to before.  I’m sure I’ll be spending more time there over the next couple of years, as Angelina attends college there.  Hopefully the baseball results turn out a little differently.