Walking all over town really makes one tired, which is evident by the lack of blog post yesterday (I was just too tired to do anything). Also, before I forget, I neglected to write down something funny that happened on Saturday. Well, we were on the subway on our way back from Bunker Hill, and one of the subways had some initials in it. Aloud, my dad wondered what they meant. Here's where it gets creepy - immediately after that, an automated voice came over and said what it meant, as if it had heard my dad ask that question. Isn't that really weird?? Anyway, on Sunday, we went to the JFK Presidential Library for a good portion of the day. We had some troubles actually getting there, because it was quite confusing. After getting off the subway, you have to walk over this bridge to a bus stop, where a bus will pick you up and take you to the library. The whole time on the bus (until we got there), I was worried that we weren't actually on the right bus, and were just going somewhere random, but it obviously worked out because we did eventually get there. My favorite part was the glass room (I don't know if that is the right word for it...), but the museum itself was pretty interesting, as well. It was cool to see some of those videos and see history first hand from JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy, as well as their lives before the presidency. Two really neat things there were the family bible that JFK was sworn in on and this scrapbook with little sketches made by Jacqueline Kennedy and her sisters on their to Europe.
After finishing up there, we went and finished the rest of the Freedom trail, most of which were old cemeteries with people like Paul Revere and Samuel Adams buried there. The tombstones there, like the ones on Copp's Hill, were very intricate, if a bit morbid. By this time we were pretty hungry, so we went and got lunch/snacks at this coffee shop my mom had found before the trip, which was called the Thinking Cup. As soon as we entered, you knew that it was a good place because it was so jam packed - we didn't even have enough room for all of us to sit down at once. The sandwich I ordered was so-so, but the bread was very tasty, as well as the peanut butter cupcake that we bought for later. In their drinks, they swirled around the foam, so that it looked like a leaf, which I thought was pretty cool. After our appetites were satisfied, we walked across the Boston Commons, and into the Public Gardens, where we looked for and found this very cute statue of little ducklings following their mother duck. I think it came out of a picture book, but I'm not 100% sure. Lastly, my sister, mom, and I left my brother and dad and went to look at the shops on Newberry Street. We only went into Banana Republic and a bookstore (where we bought a People Magazine), mostly because the stores were closing early on Easter (by the way, Happy belated Easter), but we found a bunch to look at later. Actually, my sister and mom are out right now shopping, while I am sitting here blogging. That's dedication for you (actually, I was too tired to go). After a while, we wanted to go back to where we are staying, and so went looking for the subway stop that my dad had promised was at the end of the road. Let me tell you, that wasn't just a short little jaunt he made it out to be. When we finally found the subway station, the subway itself was not nearly as nice as some of the other lines - there was a huge curve that made the subway sway back and forth ominously and it kept on slowing down and speeding up randomly. As I said before, I was tired by the time I got back, so all I did was lay on my bed, read my People, and then watched the second part of this new Great Expectations adaptation on PBS, which was awesome, even if it did add some stuff in and leave a bunch out. Even if you have never read the book, I would recommend you see this version (if there is no other inducement, adult Pip is pretty cute...especially when he randomly dumps water on himself. Hey, I wasn't complaining). That is all for Sunday's adventures.
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