Boston - Part II

On Friday, I slept in (not really) and Michelle had meetings in the AM. After walking Michelle to her meeting, I basically just re-hydrated in the hotel room and caught up on administrative red tape for my job. When she got back our plan was to walk some of the freedom trail and hit up a few bars along the way. Freedom trail is actually really easy to follow. They have two layers of bricks laid the wrong way along the sidewalk and that is what you follow. No tour guide needed!!!

Let me rewind before I begin. I told the boston boys about this plan and they loved it. We printed out a map of the trail and they circled some must go to bars. The only killer was the weather. On Thursday, it was 60. On Friday, it was snowing when we woke up. It settled at 40 for the day and for the rest of the weekend. Thank you very little.

On our walk to grab lunch at a bar and grill by the graveyard that contains people such as John Hancock and Paul Revere, I thought it would be fun to try to hit 13 bars for 13 colonies.

Knowing it was going to be a long day, I decided to take notes via my blackberry. So I am going to break each paragraph by my UNEDITED notes (you can see what happens with my note taking as the night progresses...).

1. Started at beantown pub right by old graveyard. Beer- waschuttes blueberry - it is light and tasty. This was a great starting point. I can not lie. The boston boys know what they are talking about. The food was great too. Again, across the street was quite the graveyard. Also, ever since I randomly had a seadog blueberry beer, I have fallen in love with blueberry beers. Please keep note of this...Time of lunch was around 1.

2. Seen some cool places. Michelle had to go do work. I walked into sissys. Got a noble pils. Not a fan. Boooo. There is a lot of time between messages here. I think I walked into Sissy K's at like 3. Michelle had a rush project come up around 2:30. We were taking in the sites so I did not have to write about any beers. We visited America's oldest church, the site of the Boston Massacre, the hall where the Tea Party started. This town really is impressive and not very big. I highly recommend the freedom trail. Sissy K's is a boston boys favorite bar because Bud light drafts are $2 (did not know). I ordered a Sam Adams beer that I did not like and it cost $6. I was not happy and I was alone now. Reinforcements were coming though.

Ok - I wasn't alone. Red was just sitting on a bench in Union Market! I had to say hi.

Fine - I took this pic on Sunday morning but he was right there. I just didn't see him on Friday!

3. Kittyosheas - molston canadian- don't get this on draft very often. Came in here on cynthia's suggestion. Hilarious. So, I am right by Faneuil Hall (union market). Faneuil Hall is where colonists first protested the Sugar Act in 1764 and established the doctrine of "no taxation without representation." I posted on facebook that I was bar crawling and one of Michelle's friends posted back that they liked Union Markey area and stopped at Kitty O'Shea's for a beer. Thus my next choice in bar. Their options weren't great but I do like Molson Canadian and it was on draft. This is where my buddy Colin met up with me.

4. Trail tour interrupted. Colin drops off nrol4w at aquarium. We meet up with mich at mr dooleys by hilton, have a boddingtons. So Colin has a book with him that he wants to give to a friend. This ends up being a 30 min sidetrack. I noted it because I was finding my rhythm and this broke it. NROL4W is not a typo (New Rules of Lifting for Women). After the drop off, I get a call from Michelle saying she done. YESSS! Colin and I head to Hilton to pick her up and we stop at Mr. Dooley's for a beer on our way back to the freedom trail. TIMECHECK - 5 pm. This was the worst bartender I have ever dealt with...maybe not but she is up there. Let us move on.

5. Green dragon- oldest bar ever awesome- had the dragon beer it was awesom. LOVE THIS PLACE! The place inside was an ordinary bar. However, the Green Dragon Tavern has been open since 1657!!!! It was deemed the "headquarters of the Revolution" by Samuel Adams, Daniel Webster and Paul Revere. This bar is the perfect symbol of this 13 bars bar crawl! This is also the last site I visited on the freedom trail. Another PwC-er (ex Chicago guy), Jay also joined us here.

6. Caffe pompei-colin and jay need some food. Grabbed a coors light. We r in the north end...ie little italy. Caught a glimpse of the garden walking over here. So after the Green Dragon, we gave up on the freedom trail and headed to the North end, so the guys could grab some food. Now, Michelle and I were SUPPOSED to go to dinner that night just the two of us but sitting at Cafe Pompei we decided to cancel. We were having a blast. Also, on the walk over, we saw the garden and decided we were heading there next.

Well, not too put too much into one blog. The continuation and finale of this wonderful Friday in Boston will come to an end tomorrow.