Adventures in Boston Part 1

My dream to make it to the east coast was finally realized about a week ago. Tyson had to go to Boston for a business trip to meet with some clients and his work graciously offered to pay for me to go with him. I was ecstatic! The history nerd within me was freaking out! So much history waiting to be discovered and explored by me! How glorious :) Tyson was a great sport and listened to all my history nerd ramblings. I'm splitting up this post into a few installments because I have so many fun pictures to share!

Day One:

Mostly we just travelled. We had a layover in Philly, and our flight got delayed about 4-5 hours. It was awesome. Just kidding. It was actually terrible. Really terrible. Anyway, after weather issues (hurray thunder and lightning), and mechanical issues--we sat on a plane for over an hour only to find out it was a "bad" plane and we had to move to a "good" plane. We finally arrived in Boston about 1 AM (eastern Time). Then we had to drive to Rhode Island to get to our hotel. It literally poured and thundered the whole drive (only a few hours). Tyson and I joked that Rhode Island decreased their highway speed limit (I think it was like 45 mph) so that people could enjoy Rhode Island for a longer time. Basically you blink and you've made it through the state! Our hotel was awesome. Actually we were both disappointed that we only stayed one night in that hotel--I could have died in that bed.

We got yummy Philly Cheese Steaks in the philly airport. I was pleasantly surprised. I'm sure there are better places to get philly cheese steaks in the city, but we were limited whilst in the airport.

Day Two:

After about 4 hours of sleep we had to drive to Connecticut to meet with one of the clients. I read the Call of the Wild (one of the books I have to teach) in it's entirety, while Tyson worked his magic. I'm still not sure what he does. All I know is that people at work call him the wizard or something like that. Anyway, we left the client mid-afternoon and then had a 3 hour drive to one of my favorite parts of the trip--Cape Cod! We drove through 3 different states. Party. Anyway, we hit some traffic and we learned that Massachusetts loves to build narrow roads. But finally we arrived in Orleans, MA. 

Everything was so green. It's crazy.

Town center in Norwich, Connecticut.

We checked into our hotel that was seasonal place (only open during the summer months). And can I just say that the place we stayed was great. It was super cheap (for the area), and though nothing fancy,(and the beds were not as comfy as the place in Rhode Island) the people who worked there were super nice. Tyson forgot a shirt there, they called about an hour after we checked out and shipped it to our Provo address for free! How awesome is that? Anyway, I'm ahead of myself. We checked into our hotel, and figured out which beaches we were going to go to, because that was the whole point of going to Cape Cod. Come to find out most of the beaches require a sticker that you have to purchase to park there, or typically a 15 dollar/day fee. But luckily we were there a little late (around 6ish), so no one was there to check parking. We decided to go to Nauset Lighthouse Beach first. It was gorgeous! Beautiful soft sand, pretty views and an awesome, old lighthouse. The weather was a little rainy and wet, but we didn't let that stop us. It was still pretty warm and humid.

The Atlantic Ocean is cold!

The second beach we stopped at was called Head of the Meadow Beach. It's a beach that is famous for being a ship graveyard. Apparently there are lots of sandbars that ships get stuck in during storms. We tried to find some remains while we were there, but it was getting pretty dark. Also, we read later that many of the ships can only be seen during low tide and we were there during high tide. Anyway, if you look up the beach on google you'll see cool pictures of the abandoned ships stuck in the sand. 

Tyson's positions to take pictures were hilarious.  He was intent on getting good pictures for backgrounds on his comp/Ipad/iphone

I had to hop out of the car to get a picture of this sign. So funny!

After exploring the beaches we headed back towards Orleans to find some dinner. We ended up stopping at a local pub. And the food was excellent.Tyson enjoyed some fresh oysters all to himself. Apparently they were delicious. I don't get it. And the live band playing was most excellent... if you call screeching cats and dogs excellent music that is...

After dinner we headed across the street to enjoy a local ice cream shop that sold homemade ice cream. I got pistachio. Tyson got something with chocolate. It was so good. Definitely could tell it was homemade. Yum Yum. And as you can see by the picture below, humidity agrees with my hair quite well. ;) Hello Frizz!

We headed back to the hotel to get some much needed sleep. After all we were both functioning with only a few hours of sleep. I think we may have enjoyed some food channel shows before bed though. Gotta love food channel and the Iron Chef (we actually did this most nights while in Boston to wind down)!

I'll write installment two of our adventures in Boston soon!