On Tuesday Nora, Stuey and I took the Mass Transit or 'T' into Boston to visit the New England Aquarium. What's funny is that I really know the subway and my way around Boston, and yet, I don't know how to pay for parking and get a ticket for the subway. Since I last frequented Boston and the T in the late 1980s all the procedures have changed even while the physical aspects have remained the same. It used to be free parking at Riverside - now you are encouraged to use a parking app on your phone to pay. On the subway - no more quarters or tokens - you got to buy an electronic ticket.
And yet, on the subway I knew all the stops and their order, and when we got to Government Center I knew right where to go. We went down the steps, pasts the Sam Adams statue (now sadly mostly associated with good beer everywhere except in Boston where people do still remember what he actually represents), and into Quincy Market. The kids were in Heaven. We ate at a nearby restaurant where Stuey had a 14$ grilled cheese sandwich and Nora had REALLY good clam chowder. I had a beer - a Sam Adams seasonal!
And then off to the aquarium we went. At the aquarium the touch tank had sharks in it! How cool. We also saw fur seals and sea lions, and a diver at the bottom of the tank who lay back and showed off blowing bubble circles. Two solid hours of entertainment, and then it was time to take the T home. Patrick
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| Diver blowing bubble circles like a pipe smoker blows smoke rings |
Better to be excited to visit a city than to be excited to visit the outdoors. That looks like a great aquarium!
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