About 2.5 months ago, I heard about the cheap fare of megabus.com and how you can get a bus ticket for as cheap as free [with a $0.50 reservation fee). I needed to take advantage and bought tickets to Atlantic City. Now, making plans for any weekend for me as far as 2.5 months in advance is tricky. I'm a freelancer so who knows if I'll be working or not months from now. But since they were like $6 I figured if I couldn't use them, it wouldn't be a huge loss.
Another problem with this was:
1) finding someone to go to Atlantic City with me
2) what the hell was I going to do in Atlantic City when I don't gamble!
26 hours before I was scheduled to go, my [very dear!] mother changed my reservations upon my request. I exchanged those tickets for one to Boston since I knew a couple of people there I might like to visit.
Anyways, a few weeks later and I'm waking up at 7am on a Saturday to catch a 9:30am bus to Boston. Luckily, my good pal Ethan, let me stay with him in Cambridge. I got there without a problem and being the meticulous traveler I am, researched the subway system beforehand.
I got a Charlie Card (the equivalent to a metrocard) at South Station and was on my way to Porter Square. Easy as pie. Ethan was waiting for me at the station. After finishing our delicious pulled-pork sandwiches in his backyard, we headed into Boston to walk around. Passed by Berklee, Newbury Street, a park that I don't know the name of, and some other areas Ethan couldn't tell me diddlysquat about. I unfortunately lost a lot of photos from my camera unexpectedly
In the meantime, I leave you with the following:
Thanks to Data Recovery II and an external media reader, I managed to recover some photos!!
Ethan and I walked around Boston and stumbled across this park.
me on what is supposedly one of the longest escalators in the U.S. (I looked it up and the one at the Wheaton Station in DC is the longest... another reason for me to go back to DC!)
We went to the ICA which is right by the water.
Me: "Alright guys if we see a big anchor i want to take a picture with it"
Eric & Ethan take a step: "Um, there's one"
James met up for some delicious lobster bisque :)
Ethan and Hayley:
So that Saturday night, we met up with Shaun and company at Charlie's Kitchen. I was the only girl and the only one who ordered food but not a beer. Sigh. Double Cheeseburger with awesome waffle fries. Or were they curly? Whatever, it was the best $5.25 I've ever spent. Moving along...
We picked Eric up at South Station and went to Cambridge Commons, a restaurant/bar where they serve beer punch-- that consists of lemonade, vodka, ice and a bottle of beer (i believe it was Sam Adams, what else).
Good Time
Good Time... ah where to even start? Ever since Ethan and I had run into his friend Leigh Saturday evening, all I had been hearing about was "Good Time". It's basically the largest arcade I've ever seen. Think about the last time you went to an IKEA, and remove all of the furniture and whathave you, dump in loads of ticket games, huge claw games, a [small] go-kart track, bumper cars, laser tag, 20 dartboards and beer, and you've got Good Time. Sadly, the night I went was its last and it is now turning into the IKEA you were imagining at first. And in case you were wondering, I redeemed my tickets for whoopee cushions and cheap hand buzzers.
The next day, Eric and I rode the bus back to NYC. Totally a fun weekend.
