Boston

Boston 2015!!!

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Last month I went on a wonderful trip to visit my cousin.  We went to Fenway Park and I had a freakin' flight of scotch which I have evidence of. Unfortunately, I did not take a ton of photos so there is not a lot of evidence of the beer crawl and the Boston Marathon except for iPhone photos.  There are certainly a lot of selfies though.... I am sorry for that.  Kind of.  

My cousin was amazing and found Boston Brew Tours, a service that drives you all around Boston in a big white van.  I promise it isn't as creepy as it sounds.  So we joined a group of 12 that were celebrating a birthday party and made our merry way around Boston's breweries.  We went to Sam Adams, Idle Hands, Meadhall, and Night Shift Brews.  The whole experience was awesome.  Not only did they let us sample amazing beer, but Meadhall fed us a very awesome meal. 

We went to Citizen Public House where I had an awesome brunch (that was definitely not vegetarian) and then I may or may not have tried a flight of whiskey.  Okay, I definitely did. Then onto Fenway Park where I saw my very first Boston Red Sox game and even bought a hat.  No it was not the insane Green Monster hat.  Sniz is an Orioles fan so she was disappointed in me being a Red Sox fan (I'm really a Cubs fan but we don't talk about that).  

The night before I had to leave we went to the North End for some amazing Italian food at Carmelina's before going to Mike's Pastry shop so I could bring my family back the best of cannolis.  

I can't wait to see Sniz again and/or go back to Boston. 

Boston, Beer, and Boats

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In May, I went to visit my cousin Elizabeth - better known as Sniz- in Boston.  Boston is an awesome town because it's just a tinier, more clean version of New York City and we all know how I feel about New York City.  My Amazing Aunt gave me a ticket to see Sniz anytime I wanted for Christmas/my Birthday and I finally cashed it in. 

We got to do all sorts of fun cousin things; like actually try on a bra that fits me (I could blog about this for days), drink beer, shop, watch scary TV shows, and go whale watching.  

First we drank beer. Both at The Whiskey Priest, which has an awesome upstairs deck that looks out on the harbor, and at Harpoon Brewery.  It was the first time I got to experience the brewery's beer hall and I have to say it was awesome.  In addition to having amazing beer, they also have ridiculously good pretzels with different sauces to soak up all that alcohol.  It was supposed to rain all weekend, and instead we ended up having absolutely beautiful weather- especially for the whale watching. 

We went whale watching on Sunday.  It was also supposed to rain, and it clearly did not.  We did get majorly lucky and saw about 11 or so different Humpback and Fin whales. You can read about it here on the NEAQ's website.  Apparently seeing so many whales is uncommon, but there was a large population explosion of what the whales fed on at the time so we got lucky.