Day 4 – 4/7/14
So MJ Obrien’s was actually MJ O’Connors – whatever, same diff – an
Irish pub! Had a bit to eat and basically called it a night. I ordered hummus and it came with a healthy
selection but deadest the amount of hummus was hilarious – it was like they got
a spatula and smacked the big dollop on my plate. Gave it a good go, but had to leave more than
half behind.
I was up again early and set off to the café Pete and I had
breakfast at 4 years ago – The Paramount.
I couldn’t remember what we had so I ordered some Pancakes with
strawberries with a skinny mocha. The
plate arrived and I remember it was what Pete ordered last time. 4 pancakes and a million strawberries – OMG I
knew I wouldn’t get through it, but was willing to give it a good go. I managed the pancakes but only half the
strawberries and ¾ of the coffee.
Managed to walk a little off by wandering around Boston a bit more and I
was such a rebel – being so quiet I walked on the left for the majority of the
walk –so there – ha! Also found my house
I will buy, when money is no object…
Sher was up and ready to go when I got back to the hotel so
not long after we headed off for a day our Fenway – we were pretty excited,
figuring it would be a great day. The rain had held off and we were going to
tour first before watching the game.
We walked up to Fenway (approx. 30 minute walk) and we had
to purchase the premium tickets, rather than the normal? $25 verses $17 so we figured it would be a
pretty good tour – we were wrong! We
walked in, sat in some seats that you can buy tickets for anyway and it was
over – learnt a little history but basically we were underwhelmed. My highlight was hearing the guy practise for
the anthem for the game. Check him out here - I missed the beginning of the song, but you get my drift.
The game – well to top off the tour – we learnt the game was
being rescheduled – because of impending rain.
WTF! It isn’t raining so why call
it now – the forecast was the same as the day before so why now? Of course, we were flying out so we couldn’t
go, so not only was the tour shite, we were not going to see any ball playing
on the 4th July L
So we thought about checking our Harvard or I suggested we
could go back to pub and watch Roger play?
Sher was happy to go to O’Connors to watch the match, so we trudged back
to Back Bay (seemed a lot slower than the walk up!) and settled into
O’Connors. All the TV’s were showing the
Quarter final Germany v somebody soccer match so had to ask for them to turn
the tennis on. We got our own little
corner and managed to watch from when Roger was up 4-2 in the first set. Having seen that Manly lost, the tour sucked
and ball game affectively cancelled, the only way I could salvage my day was to
have a beer and hopefully see Roger win!
And win he did. I managed to
squeeze in 4 stella’s and we shared some fries.
We hung around for a few hours and then headed over to Smith
and Wollensky to have a much talked about steak. It was closed, so we had to go back to hotel
and wait for it to open. We had a
martini in the foyer (Sher’s was much nicer than mine) and finally made it over
to the steak house. Very posh and we
were very pleased to get to be seated with the thought of the tantalising steak
making us very hungry.
We both ordered the recommended sirloin with some corn and
potato on the side. I was enjoying a
nice sav blanc and the steaks arrived.
The potato was almost bigger than the steaks – HUGE!! Anyway long story short, the steak was
horrible – the blandest most boring steak I have ever eaten in my life – to say
I was disappointed is an understatement!
Same for Sheri! I ordered a
desert to try and save the meal with a Drambuie. Hmmm it was ok but we both agreed, dinner was
a let down.
Headed back to hotel and it was still raining –
unfortunately the last day in Boston wasn’t the best but I still love the
place. We have to fly out very early and
have a 4am start in the morning, so I had an early night – to sleep off the
grog and large amount of food I digested today.
I must admit I felt a little guilty having all I had today but
considering that was the first blow out in about 6 weeks, I haven’t done too
bad. Hopefully all the walking is a
counteraction!
Farewell East Coast – how I love you and shall miss you –
until next time :)
Here is the link for all the photos from my Boston adventure
2014.
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