House hunting in Boston
I had a couple plans on how to entertain myself while in Boston alone:
- I had a few restaurants I wanted to revisit from my last trip
- I want to visit the new Contemporary Art Museum (because I saw it featured on This Old House)
- I wanted to find the building my parents lived in while my mother was in nursing school at Mass. General Hospital and my dad was in the US Navy.
I decided to set out on completing the third goal last night after the conference…but it was a little difficult seeings how my mom could only remember the street name and the fact that there was a market across the street. To make it worse, yesterday was the hottest day this week with a heat index of 103. Luckily Anderson Street is only a couple blocks long, and the market is still there.
After finding the building I spent some time walking around the neighborhood snapping pictures for my mom. It is a cool area, lots of young health care professionals walking to/from work in their scrubs and many little shops/businesses disbursed throughout the area. I’d live there if I lived in Boston. I even bought a couple lotto tickets in the market thinking that lightning could strike twice and I would rewarded with copious amounts of treasure after finding the first item I was looking for - that didn’t work out so hot.
After checking that goal off the list I spent some time sitting by the Charles River talking to my friend Marty, enjoying the view, thinking about life and then heading back to the hotel. It was a good night.