Bean-town

This past weekend Christopher's friend G drove down from Toronto for a weekend visit. We don't get many house guests, so I had fun playing hostess.

On Friday night Chris & G headed out to Foxwoods to play some poker. And on Saturday G mentioned that he had never been to Boston, so we decided to drive in for the evening.

Christopher and I have lived in Connecticut for almost 10 months and we hadn't been to Boston once in this time! On the other hand, we have been into NYC a bunch of times.

Boston is a beautiful city. We drove to the Boston Common, parked there and just wandered around. The city has so much character and charm. We started off in a nice part of town filled with some high-end shops and hotels. Then we headed back through the Common to Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall Marketplace. And after that we walked to the North part of town, filled with so many little Italian restaurants that all look like they could be my next favourite hidden gem.

On the drive back G was going through the CDs we have in the car - which are mostly mine since Christopher is riding his bike to school this summer:

G: [picks up my Jesse McCartney CD] Who is this, Paul McCartney's son?
C: [laughing] No G, don't do it!