Two weekends ago I took this lovely minivacation with my friend KELSEY. I met this little angel in the airport in Glasgow on my first day in September...I stumbled into the terminal at some ungodly hour like 8am and, fresh off a 20-hour journey from Oregon, I just happened to run into another girl who was as lost trying to get to the university as I was! Since then we have had the best times together...eating mostly, but some proud cultural exploration moments too. (if you can call talking politics with two Dutch boys in a Utrecht snack bar at 2am cultural exploration?) Anyway, we've been all around the Netherlands and Belgium and Glasgow together, and now that we're momentarily on the same side of the pond again, Boston was the obvious meetup for the next weekend trip.
Our first day was pretty typical: my train and her bus both happened to be an hour and a half delayed, Kelsey's bag ripped by the time we met in South Station, and after a tussle with the subway system we finally arrived at our hostel only to find that our room had been overbooked. What better start to a relaxing weekend getaway? But things fell back into place...we even ended up with a private room at another place right across from Fenway Park. We had a lovely evening walking around Newbury Street and ate dinner at this beautiful little bar/restaurant called Otherside.
I ordered a vegan BLT (yes it was one of those places) and Kelsey got some lettuce wraps...a brief moment of healthy eating before the tornado of bakeries and ice cream that would attack our weekend.
Newbury Street:
J.P. Licks ice cream...there should really be one of these on every street corner in New England. How else to survive a summer here?! This place is amazing...they even have a gigantic teacup inside, just like Disneyworld. But much better ice cream than Disneyworld.
Also: take a close look at the cash register in this next photo...the people in line in front of me ordered Cucumber and Lumpy Primate ice cream. Why didn't I get a better look at them?
Sometime when everything else closed, we went back to our hostel and checked out the "Panoramic Lounge" on the top floor. Look at the view of Fenway! Not that I really pay attention anymore, but I was raised in a house that WORSHIPS the Boston Red Sox, so I've been bragging about this for the past two weeks straight. We couldn't see anything except for a few little baseball caps in the upper seats, but still...
Planning our next day's adventures...
More Boston photos soon! happy Friday everyone!
LOVE
-a
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