Boston - Day 2

Today was a walking day. We decided to walk the Freedom trail after finding out that a lot of things on the Harvard tour were closed.

We walked over the Charlestown Bridge. It's a metal grate bridge. You can see through it to the water. Emily and Kevin did not like that at all.

Once over the bridge we were in the North End of Boston. This is also known as Little Italy. We toured the Copps Hill Burial Ground.

We then walked down the street to the Old North Church. This is the church where lantern was lit to warn the people that "the British are coming".

After leaving there we kept seeing people carrying "Mike's Pastry" boxes and ended up passing it on the way to our next stop. We have to go in. There was a line out the door, but some kind person had pity on us and told us that there really wasn't a line. Once we got in the door we could just work our way to an open spot at the counter. It was packed! They had 15 or 16 Cannoli choices. The picture is of a peanut butter/chocolate cananoli. Oh. My. Goodness. So yummy. I think we will have to stop by there at least one more time before leaving here.

After eating our cannoli's we went to Paul Revere's house. It was 2 story and appeared to be rather large for a house from that time. Down stairs there was a kitchen and then a large living/dinner room with a huge fireplace. Upstairs there were 2 bedrooms. The master bedroom was rather large. In addition to the bed there was a table and chairs. The room next to that was the mother-in-law's room. Not sure where the children slept.

On our way to Faneuil Hall, we passed the Holocaust Memorial. There were 6 glass tower representing each concentration camp. On each tower was 1,000,000 numbers for each person that died there. So sad. This picture is looking up through one of the memorials.

Next to this was Faneuil Hall. It's a large marketplace with food, shops and Faneuil Hall. Faneuil Hall was where town meeting were held and became the "focus of Revolutionary activity in Boston". We are going go back and revisit that, since the kiddos were starting to wear down.

Our last stop of the day was the Old State House. This is where the Boston Massacre occured and the Declaration of Independence was read aloud from the balcony a few days after July 4th, 1776. They still read it every year from the balcony on July 4th. From here we decided that we were done for the day. Tomorrow we will pick up from here and tour Harvard/Cambridge.