This will be part of a Throwback Thursday series from when my family and I went to Boston and Salem between June 27, 2018 and July 3, 2018. As it is a trip from before I created my blog, there will most likely be less pictures than usual on some days. Nevertheless, I think Boston and Salem are both places full of adventures, and I’d like to share mine with you. Enjoy! 🙂
Day 3 June 29, 2018
Dear Adventure Avenue,
The plan for today was to do more of the Boston Freedom Trail today and hopefully finish it. Yesterday we had seen the first four stops of the Trail (Boston Common, Massachusetts State House, Park Street Church, and Granary Burying Ground). We still had 12 more sights to see.
We took an Uber to the King’s Chapel and walked around the church. It was an interesting church in that all the pews were boxed in. They did this to make prayer more personal among families. It also kept families warm during the winter. The pew/where people sat were based on social status. Slaves and free African Americans sat upstairs.
The King’s Chapel Burying Ground didn’t have anyone whose tombstone we wanted to see, so we just peaked in.
We then walked to the First Public School Site. It is also where the Benjamin Franklin Statue is. We stayed in the courtyard and looked at the statue. The building is now a Ruth Chris.
Also in that courtyard were the Republican footprints and the Democratic donkey:
Then we walked past the Old Corner Bookstore. It’s a really interesting building, but it’s unfortunately no longer a bookstore. It is a Chipotle. Anne Hutchinson once called this site home before she was banished from Massachusetts in 1638 for her unorthodox religious views.
The Old South Meeting House was next on the trail. This was the first stop where we had to pay. (Kids were $1 and adults were $5 or $6 I believe). It really just looked like a church. There was a scavenger hunt that kids could do. There wasn’t too much that interested me on display here. I’d say we didn’t really get our money’s worth here.
We then walked to the Old State House Museum – which is also the site of the Boston Massacre.
This museum was free for kids but $10 for adults. We got our money’s worth here! We went on two of the little “tours” that they offered. One of the tours was about the second level of the State House. It told us how the second floor was divided into a judiciary, executive, and legislative room. The second tour was a Q and A with a historical figure, “Mr. Love.” I really enjoyed the second one.
It was getting to be around lunch time and we were getting tired and hungry. (No doubt from the combination of all our walking and the intense heat). We walked to Boston Legal Sea Food. I had a pretty good crab roll. My mom had shrimp scampi which she enjoyed. My brother had chicken tenders. My dad had the clam chowder which was really good.
Here’s a picture of my crab roll
After lunch we got back on the Freedom Trail and walked around the Faneuil Hall building. There are shops and food there.
Paul Revere’s House was really far compared to how close everything else was, but we walked there (in the heat, I might add). We had to pay to go in the house, but I found the 1600s house intriguing. It is the oldest remaining structure in Downtown Boston. I also learned that Paul Revere had 16 children!
Then we walked to the Old North Church. At this point everyone was pretty tired exhausted. We didn’t end up going to look inside this church or the Captain Jackson’s Chocolate Factory as we were all dreadfully hot and tired. We didn’t think we would enjoy it. (Note from the present- If I ever went back to Boston, I would go into the church and the Chocolate Factory.) The Church is also the same church in National Treasure.
After the church, we went to Copp’s Hill Burying Ground. It’s another cemetery. There weren’t any grave markers that we looked for.
We decided to leave the last two stops of the Freedom Trail for tomorrow. With that decision, we Ubered back to the hotel.
We wanted to get sausages from a street vendor, but there weren’t any out. We ended up having Tasty Burger. I had a kraut dog.
All in all it was a hot, but educational and fun day.
Signing off, until tomorrow,
A
From Boston
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