Destination: Boston, Massachusetts (Day 2)

Continuing our visit to Boston, the next morning, we did fewer historical things and got around to some of the museums that Boston has to offer.

We started our morning back on the Harbor to visit the New England Aquarium. The main feature of the aquarium (and a personal highlight for me) would definitely have to be the penguins! I LOVE PENGUINS! Other than that, the aquarium was quite small, but we still had fun :)

After the aquarium, we headed to the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum. I was so excited for this because I wanted to bring back ideas to my kids. They do SUCH a good job! The whole experience is interactive--you walk in and are given a role of one of the men that would have been at the Tea Party. You are then given a feather (to disguise oneself as Mohawk Indians) and go through the whole event as if you were a Patriot rebel. You even get to throw a fake tea chest into Boston Harbor, yelling Huzzah! 

 

We both really enjoyed that experience! We then hit a few Freedom Trail sites that we had missed from the day before, the Paul Revere home and the Old North Church. We definitely will not put the Paul Revere home on our list of favorite old homes, but we did enjoy the Church, learning about the "one if by land, two if by sea lantern story" and learning how to make chocolate in the 1700's.

Nick then really wanted to make it to the Wax Museum that we had free admission to with our Trolley tour. We did it, and we had a lot of fun, but are very grateful that we didn't pay to get in, it wouldn't have been worth it! Most of the wax models of the Presidents did NOT look like the presidents haha

After the wax museum, we realized we still had time to do the last thing on our City Pass, the Boston Science Museum. The woman at the ticket counter looked at us quizzically as we entered about two hours before the Science Center would close, and boy, we could have used more time! Nick did a simulation of going up into space, we watched a chick hatch in the incubator, we had wristbands that helped track our different data, and we had fun doing a variety of the activities.

We decided to end our evening by going to the Boston Skywalk, which, unfortunately, we found out upon arrival, was most definitely closed for an event that evening. The event coordinator was so kind, and allowed us to walk around in a small exhibition room to get view of the city. We ate delicious food at The Cheesecake Factory to celebrate our trip together, and then prepared that night for the next leg of our journey: Palmyra!