Wednesday was our busiest day of the week. We had a late start -- didn't get out of the door until after 11, and started with the Beantown Trolley tour.
We got off at MIT to walk around the campus and visit the MIT museum. The museum has exhibits that you would expect for MIT (like the robot section), but my favorites were the holograph exhibit and the art exhibit (where they turned mechanical devices into moving art). After the MIT museum, we caught the trolley to Fenway Park, where we took a tour of the home of the Boston Red Socks. The stadium was really nice, but I could not believe 
how much some of the tickets cost. For one of the exclusive levels, in order to purchase tickets, you had to buy a pair of season tickets at $300 per game for 7 years! That is over $300,000! After the tour, we took a ferry around the Boston Harbor, then managed to do a quick loop through the aquarium just before it closed. We finished the day eating dinner in Quincy Market, then stopping by the Beacon Hill Pub to meet some of my classmates at a weekly Sloan tradition.On Thursday, we began with the Boston Duck Tour -- where you ride around on these car/boats that were designed back in WWII, both on the streets of Boston and along the Charles River. It was a fun
and unique way to see the city. After the duck tour, we finished the Trolley loop around the city, and took a Boston movie tour to see where several movies and TV shows were filmed in the area (The Departed, Good Will Hunting, etc). That night, we went to a Biomatrix dinner, which is an MIT organization formed to get more undergraduates informed of biomedical careers. The dinner was hosted at the MIT sailing pavillion, so we had a great view of the Charles River (and luckily good weather) and met some really interesting people in the biomedical industry.Friday, we took the train to the JFK museum, which was very impressive. It was built so that you could walk through different phases of JKF's life, accompanied by authentic props and reconstructed sets to let you see what things looked like during his time.
After the JFK library, we went to the Sam Adams Brewery. I was surprised at how small it was! I have been to the Boulevard Brewery tour in Kansas City, and this place was much smaller, and the tour was much less organized (granted, they are in the process of revamping it). We did get to taste some of the barley they use to make the beer, and were able to sample a couple of their beers. But the people working the tour were able to drink way more beer than they gave us -- and they were getting paid! After the Sam Adams tour, we did a quick trip to the Museum of Science. I could have spent a lot longer -- I know some of the exhibits are geared toward kids but I enjoy those kinds of museums and they had quite a few sections geared towards adults.After we finished up in Boston, we took a train to Providence, to visit my mom, who has been working at a client in
Rhode Island. We went to Newport Beach and took a tour of several of the mansions in that area. I was surprised at how elaborate these mansions are -- they looked more like castles then mansions. They were intricately decorated -- all the way up to the ceiling, and the backyard views of the ocean were beautiful. Unfortunately, they did not allow for pictures inside the mansions, but I caught a few from the outside.We finished up in Providence by completing the all-important Target run, and having dinner on the beach. Then we took the train back to Boston (Target bags in tow) to get ready for pre-term the next day ...
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