OK continuing on my rundown of the last couple of weeks:
Saturday 13th - We actually go out and did some signtseeing. We decided since it was a nice clear day that we'd head west and check out the blackstone River Valley. We headed out past Milford and Hopedale and managed to find the visitors center, which int urn was open. Quite amazing! unfortunately Lexie had decided that she was sleepy finally so we didn't get to get out and walk along the river side trail whcih was a shame cause after all the rain we'd just had everything was in flood and what is normal paddocks is now more river. We tried driving around for a little while, up the to dam and the lookout waiting for Lexie to wake up, but of course we didn't so we just decided to head down the valley to MIllville to shee the locks there, of course Lexie woke up just after we left the area. Grrr you have bad timing girl.
We got down to Millville and after a bit of a detour found the path to the lock, unfortunately it too was under water, and since it was freezing - and I do mean freezing. we had couldn't make it too the Lock. Not having much luck so far. So we pushed on into Blackstone itself where there is meant to be a gorge, and found a little cafe to have lunch in. The waitress int his place was an absolute floozy, after forgetting that she had customers (and yes she even admitted it) we tried to ask her how to get to the gorge. Her response..... Whats a gorge? we tried to explain it to her but finally she had to call one of the other waitress' over to give us directions hmmmm maybe not the brightest spark.
But we did manage to find the gorge after all, not that I would call it a gorge, just a waterfal really.
And unfortunately Lexie decided that she really didn't like the cold or something and absolutely screamed whilst we were out of the car, so we jumped back in and headed home via Bellingham.
Sunday 14th - Shopping again....
Monday 15th - We got a beautiful day today clear and 15degC so we decided that we would head into Boston and check out the city. We decided that we would drive into Mattapan, the end of the subway line and catch the train in from there. Unfortunatley the drive into Mattapan was long and slow and we got here right at the end of peak hour, but we made it and got a big surprise. The train doesn't go all the way to Mattapan, it stops at Ashmont and theres a little trolley type thing that runs from there.
Very cute. Next problem was trying to buy tickets. They had nothing explaining the system, no one on duty to ask and we got no help from the other passengers, but we finally ended up with a ticket each, we wern't sure if it was the right ticket, but it was a ticket.
We hopped on the tram (is it just me, or were we the only white people on this tram, seems we've found the black area of Boston out here at Mattapan) and rode into Boston. We were going to go onto Park street station, but at the stop before Downtown Crossing they made an announcement saying something about a broken signal so we decided we'de just get off there and walk. Thankfully there was an info booth just as we got out of the station so we were able to pick up a map, after a quick stop in Macy's to use the bathrooms we jumped on the Freedon trail. First stop Boston Common and the State building.
We then followed the freedom trail through downtown,
and up to Fanueil Hall.
We stopped and had lunch at Quincy markets
then decided to forgo he rest of the freedon trail and headed up to Beacon Hill instead. Very impressive, I like this region.
We wandered around the backstreets of Beacon Hill and ended up back at Boston Common.
A bit of a detour through the Theatre district and Chinatown took us back to Downtown crossing and the train home.
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