Final Boston Days - Part II

Don's family came to visit during the last week we were in Boston, and it was a really fun trip.  (It's always great when visitors come, because we end up exploring all of the neat things/places that we usually don't have time to explore.)

We certainly had a lot of adventures, but the highlights were our guided walking tour of the Freedom Trail, and our trip to Plymouth.

I don't have any pictures from the Freedom Trail, but the guided tour was such a great experience.  Our tour guide was hilarious, and she knew SO much history about the city.  Boston obviously played quite the role in the American Revolution, and it makes me feel so proud to have lived in the city whose "rabble-rousing" heritage changed the course of history. 

Here's to Sam Adams!!  #bostonstrong

We also spent a day in Plymouth, RI.  Of course, we saw Plymouth Rock, but we also walked around Plimoth Plantation and Plimoth Colony.  

(FYI - Sometimes they spell Plymouth like Plimoth, depending on it's historical context.  So, if I randomly switch it up, just know that I'm not throwing in typos everywhere.  Ha, getting those kinds of details inaccurate totally bothers me.  So random.)  

We took a ton of pictures in Plymouth, so I'll just kind of caption them as they come.

{This guy is a Native American descendant from the original tribe that inhabited the area of Plymouth.  He's making a canoe by using fire to burn out the middle of the tree trunk.  He said it can sometimes take weeks to burn out one canoe.}

{A nice group pic, inside a Native American winter home.}

{We watched one of the workers make some jars on her pottery wheel.  It was amazing!  Making pottery is such a beautiful, delicate form of art.  It is quite mesmerizing to watch...we had a hard time walking away.}

{You can barely see me and Don, but we are walking past the fence into Plimoth Colony. All the homes, fences, farms, gardens, etc. have all been restored.}  

{I loved walking through the colony because there were actors everywhere, dressed 100% in period costume.  Every one of them talked to us as if we lived back in the 1600's...and they never broke from character!  We asked them all sorts of questions, and throughout all of our conversations they faithfully continued their narratives.  It was fantastic!}

{This is the Plymouth Rock monument.}

{And, this is Plymouth Rock.  There really isn't much more to it, which is what everybody told us beforehand.}

{Dan and Michelle at the Plymouth Rock monument.}

{This is a picture of us in front of the Mayflower II, which is re-creation of the original Mayflower.}

{And last but not least = the lobster roll.  You can't leave New England without eating a lobster roll!}

Goodbye Boston!!  We will miss you!!