So, when we were in Boston, a co-worker of mine made a path from the PwC office to Fenway with some stops on the way. It was nicely designed and I love bar crawls so I was super excited! To set this up, the walk is around 2.5 miles. We have ourselves about 4-5 hours or 2 bars an hour. Totally doable and the weather was perfect on that friday. I took notes along the way. Here you go....my comments will be in italics
2pm start-first stop good life - jack and diet - not ready for a beer.
Anxious to have my calls done. So, I had to do a quick client call. I just wanted it over.
Bar 2 - jason wirth - 15 min until my call - ordered a jack's dark beer. Boston has a good selection of micro brews. It really is a great town.
Bar 3 - sweet water cafe - pbr on draft - in the "club area" of boston.
Went through chinatown to get here. It was chaos. By, this time my call is over. Work is over. Game on!!!!! Chinatown by the way is random collection of people...very random!
Bar 4 - parish cafe - got some food, snacks. Had a beam and diet. They had
46 on the shelf. I promised to go to CP if we did a shot. It was really
good. Smelled lik caramel. 2nd time having it. 46 is makers new whisky. I like it. I had every intention of going to Cressey Performance the next day...of course that is before the fire happened and we were outside all night.
Bar 5- rattle snake - rooftop. The beam and diet is out of a 16 oz drink.
Not much of a sight. This bar was on a rooftop with no view. Every building around it was taller than the bar. I have never been to a rooftop bar with no view before.
Bar 6 - solas irish bar - horvath is being a big time judger. Ridiculous.
Coors light. Hotel bar. Quick stop. This hotel had a bar but had multiple entrances. Well, Michelle and I went ahead to use the bathroom at the hotel before going into the bar. The boston boys went in one door and we went in the other. It took a few minutes to fine each other.
Bar 7 - whiskey -had newcastle - talked to colin how people don't know how
to jump. Lesnar convo too. UFC talk starts between Colin and I. I was telling him that I have never been good at jumping. I jump off one foot but two seems strange to me. Yes, a RANDOM conversation for sure! BTW, the weather was PERFECT for the crawl.
Bar 8 - little steve's pizzeria. Had a bud here. Pizza good. Stadium soon. We are close to Fenway and getting ready. It was awesome.
Bar 9 - Yes, I stopped writing. We went into Cask'n Flagon. Colin knows the bouncer so we walked right in ahead of the giant line. It was awesome. 9 bars for a 9 inning game. Of course, we went into Fenway after this place. The Red Sox got killed but it was very enjoyable time in the stadium.
Another successful bar crawl in Boston...
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
Boston - Part V - The World of Pain
So, after CP, we picked up Michelle and she had a bag of goodies from her bar crawl...oops...bakery crawl. So, we headed to Colin's house. Actually we straight to the BBQ place, Redbones. It was really really good. Plus, they have like 28 beers on tap. You can spin a wheel to pick a random beer to drink. Ummm, I love games!
After BBQ, we crashed at Colin's and tried some of the goodies. Michelle did a great job. There was peanut butter in like everything. YESSSSSSSSSSS!
To say we crashed is an understatement. My adrenaline from the morning/afternoon was gone and I was just beat. It has been two days straight of fun and one more to go. Luckily, Butler won and that gave me a boost of energy. There was a going away party Saturday night at Ned Devine's. We had a drink or two at Colin's. We then meet people at Sissy K's. Then got to Ned Devine's a little before 9. Horvath, another PwC-er who I am friends with, was gone Thursday and Friday night but was back Saturday. If it wasn't for him, I am not sure I would have gone. None the less I powered through (not well though, I think Michelle multiple time had to talk me into staying). At the end of the night, we walked over to Cafe Pompeii for some pizza before heading home. Not sure the last time I grabbed 2 am food was. Wow.
Well, we got back to Colin's at 3:30. To say I woke up in a HURT LOCKER would be an understatement. We ended up heading to the airport around 1 pm on Sunday and that was that. It was so nice to get home to Samantha and I looked forward to a few weeks of clean eating and clean leaving. Time to get back on track.
Boston is a great city and I loved my short vacation. I hope we can get back in the summer to make it to Fenway...
After BBQ, we crashed at Colin's and tried some of the goodies. Michelle did a great job. There was peanut butter in like everything. YESSSSSSSSSSS!
To say we crashed is an understatement. My adrenaline from the morning/afternoon was gone and I was just beat. It has been two days straight of fun and one more to go. Luckily, Butler won and that gave me a boost of energy. There was a going away party Saturday night at Ned Devine's. We had a drink or two at Colin's. We then meet people at Sissy K's. Then got to Ned Devine's a little before 9. Horvath, another PwC-er who I am friends with, was gone Thursday and Friday night but was back Saturday. If it wasn't for him, I am not sure I would have gone. None the less I powered through (not well though, I think Michelle multiple time had to talk me into staying). At the end of the night, we walked over to Cafe Pompeii for some pizza before heading home. Not sure the last time I grabbed 2 am food was. Wow.
Well, we got back to Colin's at 3:30. To say I woke up in a HURT LOCKER would be an understatement. We ended up heading to the airport around 1 pm on Sunday and that was that. It was so nice to get home to Samantha and I looked forward to a few weeks of clean eating and clean leaving. Time to get back on track.
Boston is a great city and I loved my short vacation. I hope we can get back in the summer to make it to Fenway...
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Boston - Part IV - I promise there will only be 5.
In my opinion, Rocky IV had the best workout regiment of any of the Rocky movies. So I am glad, that part IV of Boston is centered around me going to Cressey Performance (CP) to workout. So Cressey Performance is a gym in Hudson, MA (roughly 40 min outside of Boston). There is a link to them on the side of my page. These guys are trainers that "get-it". They are nationally known and very good at what they do. Curt Schilling has trained there as well as Youkilis. As their clientele is mainly baseball players (especially high schoolers), they train anyone and everyone. I have been following these guys ever since I get into lifting (thank you Knowles). My buddy Colin trains there (on my recommendation) and I set up to have an assessment there with Tony Gentilcore (a co-owner). I also got to do some lifting.
Well, to say I was excited is an understatement. When we got there, the gym was not the whole building. There were other things in the building. Think of a school almost. I just had to go to the right room. The gym was not very big. I would say 60-70 yards long and around 15 yards wide. The more I think about that, the more I get angry at the globogyms of the world. All that space and they fill it with crap machines. CP has one treadmill and one bike that I saw. They had one cable machine. That was it. A few power racks, a deadlifting area, a couple benches, chains, oh and a cement wall to throw things against.
I went through the assessment and found I have external left hip issues. No surprise by me. My left hip is tight. We went through some lifts (squat, deadlift, bench, lunges, pushups, rows) and they gave me pointers. So this is a not a gym you just go into and lift. The purposefully keep the # of people in there to a certain number and trainers walk around to help. Like a 4:1 ratio if you will. There were not many people in there when Colin and I were there so basically I got a lot of 1 on 1.
I threw a medicine ball against the wall. I front squatted to a 13 inch box. I did some pushups. I deadlifted. I was having fun and taking in as much information as I could. I won't lie. I was HUNGOVER from the bar crawl but my adrenaline was rocking.
Colin and I finished the day with an 8 min finisher. On one end of the track, there was a medicine ball. On the other end there was a giant tire and sledgehammer. Every min on the min, we would push a sled (loaded with weight) from one station to the other (40 yds apart). Colin and I would actually cross paths. Each of us were always on opposite ends. On the sledgehammer side we had to hit the tire 5 times on each side (left hand then right hand). at the medicine ball side, you had to do 10 medicine ball slams. Then you rested until the minute turned over and you went back to the other station. I loved it. I was dying at the end but man I wish my gym here was setup to do things like that.
We got there at like noon and we left at 2. I hope I get back to Boston sometime soon because I would love to train there again. My only regret is that Eric Cressey was not there. I wanted to meet the 180 lb man who deadlifts 660.
On a side note, the split between men and women lifting there was about half and half. It was good to see women in there training hard. Honestly, it was good to see everyone doing a lot of the right stuff. You see so much garbage happening at gyms. Not here.
Here is a pic of Colin doing Glute Ham Raises. This exercise kills your hamstrings....
Well, I will be super impressed if ANYONE read that whole posting. Wait? Does anyone read my blog?
The Boston finale post is happening tomorrow!
Well, to say I was excited is an understatement. When we got there, the gym was not the whole building. There were other things in the building. Think of a school almost. I just had to go to the right room. The gym was not very big. I would say 60-70 yards long and around 15 yards wide. The more I think about that, the more I get angry at the globogyms of the world. All that space and they fill it with crap machines. CP has one treadmill and one bike that I saw. They had one cable machine. That was it. A few power racks, a deadlifting area, a couple benches, chains, oh and a cement wall to throw things against.
I went through the assessment and found I have external left hip issues. No surprise by me. My left hip is tight. We went through some lifts (squat, deadlift, bench, lunges, pushups, rows) and they gave me pointers. So this is a not a gym you just go into and lift. The purposefully keep the # of people in there to a certain number and trainers walk around to help. Like a 4:1 ratio if you will. There were not many people in there when Colin and I were there so basically I got a lot of 1 on 1.
I threw a medicine ball against the wall. I front squatted to a 13 inch box. I did some pushups. I deadlifted. I was having fun and taking in as much information as I could. I won't lie. I was HUNGOVER from the bar crawl but my adrenaline was rocking.
Colin and I finished the day with an 8 min finisher. On one end of the track, there was a medicine ball. On the other end there was a giant tire and sledgehammer. Every min on the min, we would push a sled (loaded with weight) from one station to the other (40 yds apart). Colin and I would actually cross paths. Each of us were always on opposite ends. On the sledgehammer side we had to hit the tire 5 times on each side (left hand then right hand). at the medicine ball side, you had to do 10 medicine ball slams. Then you rested until the minute turned over and you went back to the other station. I loved it. I was dying at the end but man I wish my gym here was setup to do things like that.
We got there at like noon and we left at 2. I hope I get back to Boston sometime soon because I would love to train there again. My only regret is that Eric Cressey was not there. I wanted to meet the 180 lb man who deadlifts 660.
On a side note, the split between men and women lifting there was about half and half. It was good to see women in there training hard. Honestly, it was good to see everyone doing a lot of the right stuff. You see so much garbage happening at gyms. Not here.
Here is a pic of Colin doing Glute Ham Raises. This exercise kills your hamstrings....
Well, I will be super impressed if ANYONE read that whole posting. Wait? Does anyone read my blog?
The Boston finale post is happening tomorrow!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Boston - Part III - Bringing the colonies together!
Well, if you haven't read the first part of my freedom trail bar crawl, you can find it here.
7. The fours - great sports bar- right next to the garden. Long trail - decnt beer - vermont beer - Since the Celtics were playing the Kings that night, we decided to head to the bars around the Garden. The first bar we went to had a ton of memorabilia on the walls like some sports bars do. It was very impressive and the place was packed with people in Celtics shirts/jerseys.
8. Greatest bar - big sports bar - love it - pbr tall boys. Pbr tall boyyyyysssss! And now you can see my excitement growing. Who had bar 8? This bar was awesome. Huge and I think it has like four levels. Another PwCer joined us here, Nate, who is a Michigan State alum. Let me go on a sidebar about Boston bars in general. The first floor of them are very similar to Chicago. However, they for the most part are multi-level bars. I know not all but they have a lot more multi-level bars than Chicago. I found this interesting. This is the bar that had a huge first floor, the 2nd floor looked over the first. The third floor had Tennessee fans and i think there was another floor that we never made it to. It was a nice bar and they had PBR tall boys. Michelle and I had dinner there - BBQ chicken pizza. I will be honest. I was ready to give up on my mission of 13. This bar was big and once we were away from the Tennessee fans there was no reason to leave. However, the group decided it would be more fun to hop. So after a few beers and dinner here, we were on our way! FREEEDOOOOM! (i may have yelled that a few times....hahahaha).
9. Sullivans - I was on fire with poposhot. Never lost. Had smitheich draft there. Loved it Here is a bar none of the Boston boys had ever been it. It look sketchy from the outside. No windows, small sign, looked questionable. Well, we walked in and we see touch screen and pop-a-shot. I ordered a Smithwick's. You can see my typing in my notes is dying. I quickly figured out that a bank shot was far superior in this pop-a-shot and if you hit the Celtic logo, it was about a 90% chance of going in. Well, a local with a huge accent comes up and challenges me. Fine. I beat em. We are having fun. I can tell he is pretty competitive but still jovial. I beat him a couple more times. He then plays a friend of mine. Wants to play me again. I play him. beat him. He wont quit. I played him one more time. Set the high score on one machine and off by one point from setting it on both. I stopped with a few seconds to go to for style knowing I had him locked up. Thing is - he didn't want to stop. We told him we had to leave. I asked after we left if he would have ever quit, everyone said "no and welcome to your typical boston guy. Intense enough that it might become a fight and will not quit but usually nothing happens". Ok, lets move on. I have never been that good a pop-a-shot.
10. Djs- palm beer - here quick. Need three more bars. We spent too much time at Sullivan's. We wanted to be done at a minimum by half time of the Mich State game for our Mich State alum. So, we went into DJ's grabbed a random beer and moved on. The beer came in a fancy glass.
11. Grand canal - shot of chilled soco- shot and go. The british r coming. We
need to come together quickly! This bar was more like a club. Well, they had a live band. The shots although the Boston boys say were normal size, are big by any standard. They pour them in a glass for crying out loud. I am not complaining though! Again, we were looking for speed especially because the games were not a focus at this bar. If you can not tell by my notes, I am in my happy place. I have been there a while now...
12. Boston sport grill - bar 12 _ has seadog blueberry. Had the beer before.
Great beer. On tap here. Soooooooo good. Pretty good lots of tvs. So, if you remember, bar #1 started with a blueberry beer because I was looking for the Seadog Blueberry. Well, this bar had it. I was EXCITED. It was ON TAP! I almost missed it because there was so many taps. Colin found it. This bar had TVs everywhere. it was a good place to watch the game. However, last time Nate was there for a tourney game, Michigan State lost. He even warned us if Mich State started blowing the game, he was going to bolt to the next bar. I was okay with this.
13. Boston beer works! - 13 - slainte-bunker hill blueberry ale! Ended the
night at a microbrewey. The beer had blueberries in it. This was a micro brew. Nice sized bar. I went right for their blueberry beer and it was fantastic. It even had about 5-6 blueberries floating in it. We stayed here until a little after 11 pm and went back home. I paid my tribute to the original 13 colonies. It was great. Another great part - we walked right back to the hotel. No cab was needed.
On Saturday morning, I wishing that there were only like 8 or 9 colonies and not 13. Lets just say I was not on my A game.
To say I had a good time on Friday would be an understatement. The next blog is all about Cressey Performance (a gym) - you are forewarned.
7. The fours - great sports bar- right next to the garden. Long trail - decnt beer - vermont beer - Since the Celtics were playing the Kings that night, we decided to head to the bars around the Garden. The first bar we went to had a ton of memorabilia on the walls like some sports bars do. It was very impressive and the place was packed with people in Celtics shirts/jerseys.
8. Greatest bar - big sports bar - love it - pbr tall boys. Pbr tall boyyyyysssss! And now you can see my excitement growing. Who had bar 8? This bar was awesome. Huge and I think it has like four levels. Another PwCer joined us here, Nate, who is a Michigan State alum. Let me go on a sidebar about Boston bars in general. The first floor of them are very similar to Chicago. However, they for the most part are multi-level bars. I know not all but they have a lot more multi-level bars than Chicago. I found this interesting. This is the bar that had a huge first floor, the 2nd floor looked over the first. The third floor had Tennessee fans and i think there was another floor that we never made it to. It was a nice bar and they had PBR tall boys. Michelle and I had dinner there - BBQ chicken pizza. I will be honest. I was ready to give up on my mission of 13. This bar was big and once we were away from the Tennessee fans there was no reason to leave. However, the group decided it would be more fun to hop. So after a few beers and dinner here, we were on our way! FREEEDOOOOM! (i may have yelled that a few times....hahahaha).
9. Sullivans - I was on fire with poposhot. Never lost. Had smitheich draft there. Loved it Here is a bar none of the Boston boys had ever been it. It look sketchy from the outside. No windows, small sign, looked questionable. Well, we walked in and we see touch screen and pop-a-shot. I ordered a Smithwick's. You can see my typing in my notes is dying. I quickly figured out that a bank shot was far superior in this pop-a-shot and if you hit the Celtic logo, it was about a 90% chance of going in. Well, a local with a huge accent comes up and challenges me. Fine. I beat em. We are having fun. I can tell he is pretty competitive but still jovial. I beat him a couple more times. He then plays a friend of mine. Wants to play me again. I play him. beat him. He wont quit. I played him one more time. Set the high score on one machine and off by one point from setting it on both. I stopped with a few seconds to go to for style knowing I had him locked up. Thing is - he didn't want to stop. We told him we had to leave. I asked after we left if he would have ever quit, everyone said "no and welcome to your typical boston guy. Intense enough that it might become a fight and will not quit but usually nothing happens". Ok, lets move on. I have never been that good a pop-a-shot.
10. Djs- palm beer - here quick. Need three more bars. We spent too much time at Sullivan's. We wanted to be done at a minimum by half time of the Mich State game for our Mich State alum. So, we went into DJ's grabbed a random beer and moved on. The beer came in a fancy glass.
11. Grand canal - shot of chilled soco- shot and go. The british r coming. We
need to come together quickly! This bar was more like a club. Well, they had a live band. The shots although the Boston boys say were normal size, are big by any standard. They pour them in a glass for crying out loud. I am not complaining though! Again, we were looking for speed especially because the games were not a focus at this bar. If you can not tell by my notes, I am in my happy place. I have been there a while now...
12. Boston sport grill - bar 12 _ has seadog blueberry. Had the beer before.
Great beer. On tap here. Soooooooo good. Pretty good lots of tvs. So, if you remember, bar #1 started with a blueberry beer because I was looking for the Seadog Blueberry. Well, this bar had it. I was EXCITED. It was ON TAP! I almost missed it because there was so many taps. Colin found it. This bar had TVs everywhere. it was a good place to watch the game. However, last time Nate was there for a tourney game, Michigan State lost. He even warned us if Mich State started blowing the game, he was going to bolt to the next bar. I was okay with this.
13. Boston beer works! - 13 - slainte-bunker hill blueberry ale! Ended the
night at a microbrewey. The beer had blueberries in it. This was a micro brew. Nice sized bar. I went right for their blueberry beer and it was fantastic. It even had about 5-6 blueberries floating in it. We stayed here until a little after 11 pm and went back home. I paid my tribute to the original 13 colonies. It was great. Another great part - we walked right back to the hotel. No cab was needed.
On Saturday morning, I wishing that there were only like 8 or 9 colonies and not 13. Lets just say I was not on my A game.
To say I had a good time on Friday would be an understatement. The next blog is all about Cressey Performance (a gym) - you are forewarned.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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.
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.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Boston! - Part I
Wow, has it really been 13 days since I last posted???? Well, i have a few posts to talk about with my Boston trip. Wow. What a whirlwind. What a great city. We had a blast.
I will start with Thursday. Thursday, Michelle and I left Chicago at 6 am and were in Boston by 9 am their time. Well, we both went to the PwC office. Michelle first meeting was at 10:30 a few blocks from there. It was good to be in the Boston office. I have a couple good friends there and meet a few more while I was there.
So, Michelle's meetings were done around 4:30. She came back to the PwC office while I wrapped up my work. We then checked into the hotel (which was about two blocks away) and headed back to PwC to pick up a co-worker. We headed to Fenway area to watch baseball games. Another 5 PwC employees and a couple of Michelle's co workers met us.
We went to a bar called Game On. It was huge and a sweet bar. It was right next to Fenway. I was told though to walk into Bleacher Bar because from inside that bar, you can look into Fenway. Well, it was not crowded and I took a quick pic with my blackberry. The night was great. Butler upset Syracuse which was great because the bar was ALLLLL Syracuse.
When we left, we tried to find a cab. I quickly found out that the cabs there do not abide by any light on/light off rule. In Chicago, if a Taxi has his light on, he is looking for a fare. In Boston, light could be on or off. It doesn't matter. That was annoying but in all a great start to a long weekend!
Tomorrow: Freedom Trail meets Bar Crawl meets the Garden!
I will start with Thursday. Thursday, Michelle and I left Chicago at 6 am and were in Boston by 9 am their time. Well, we both went to the PwC office. Michelle first meeting was at 10:30 a few blocks from there. It was good to be in the Boston office. I have a couple good friends there and meet a few more while I was there.
So, Michelle's meetings were done around 4:30. She came back to the PwC office while I wrapped up my work. We then checked into the hotel (which was about two blocks away) and headed back to PwC to pick up a co-worker. We headed to Fenway area to watch baseball games. Another 5 PwC employees and a couple of Michelle's co workers met us.
We went to a bar called Game On. It was huge and a sweet bar. It was right next to Fenway. I was told though to walk into Bleacher Bar because from inside that bar, you can look into Fenway. Well, it was not crowded and I took a quick pic with my blackberry. The night was great. Butler upset Syracuse which was great because the bar was ALLLLL Syracuse.
When we left, we tried to find a cab. I quickly found out that the cabs there do not abide by any light on/light off rule. In Chicago, if a Taxi has his light on, he is looking for a fare. In Boston, light could be on or off. It doesn't matter. That was annoying but in all a great start to a long weekend!
Tomorrow: Freedom Trail meets Bar Crawl meets the Garden!
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