Monday, April 21, 2008

Beacon Hill and the Public Garden

Next on our tour of Boston..... :)

Saturday after Lauren's friends birthday party and lunch, we headed into Boston for another day of sight-seeing. It was a beautiful spring day with plenty of sunshine but was a little chilly.


We walked up to the Massachusetts State House from the Boston Common. Can you figure out what is going on in our city right now? It has to do with THE Playoffs. Boston is celebrating another sports team success.

Behind the State House is a neighborhood known as Beacon Hill. It is home to beautiful streets that once were paved in cobblestones and continues to house the very wealthy and very lucky. I love this part of Boston. Turn of the century brick row homes sit side by side. Chimneys decorate the tops of the brick buildings, and you literally can jump from roof top to roof top, just like Mary Poppins. Many homes have flower boxes and with Spring arriving, many of them are fresh and colorful.
Close by is the Public Garden. We walked through and saw that the Swan Boats are out from hibernation and that the tulips will be in bloom very soon.

1 comment:

Kristen said...

Once again you guys look like you are having such a great time in MA. UT will seem a little boring after living back east.