This morning we awoke to rain and cold. It didn’t get out of the 50’s here today. We headed towards Boston early this morning. We are in Littleton, MA. We found the Alewife subway station with no problems, parked and picked up our Charlie Card to ride. We got off at South Station and walked to the Boston Tea Party Museum and Tour. It was very interesting and there was a simulation of throwing the crates of tea into the harbor. We were on the ship Eleanor. Our guide was Mehitable Crane, the wife of John Crane. She told an amazing story about how they thought her husband was dead and because he couldn’t be found at the ship they took him to his shop but when they arrived the next morning expecting to find him dead, he was alive. Samuel Adams was also there and gave a rousing speech on why we should resist paying taxes on the tea.
We saw the last surviving tea crate. It was picked up near the harbor by a man and kept under the stairs of his home during the Revolutionary War. It was then passed down in his family being used for many different things before being donated to the museum. There is also a small bottle of tea that somehow survived. We weren’t allowed to take pictures in the museum. As we were walking out of one of the areas, we thought there was going to be a fight. A young boy had gotten into a man’s space and the man was mad. The mom apologized and reminded the man the spaces we were in were very close. He didn’t seem to care about that though.
After the tour we walked to Emmet’s Irish Pub for lunch. I, of course, had New England Clam Chowder. The most interesting thing at the restaurant was when I walked downstairs to the bathroom and there was a British woman standing there in her underwear drying her pants under the bathroom hand dryer. I asked her if she had spilt something on her pants and she said her son had spilt water. I told her at least it wasn’t tomato soup. She said, “yes, that is a good thing and it could have been worse. Her pants would dry.” It’s not every day you see a British woman in her knickers!.
We headed back to the the subway and got the train to our truck. Then we headed towards Rhode Island. Tom had found the closest town over the border and it was only an hour away. So, we drove through the pouring rain and made it to Cumberland, Rhode Island. I tried to get a picture three times. Mind you, it was pouring rain and the sign was on the left. Tom kept turning around and trying again and I told him to let it go. So, here is the picture I took and one I “borrowed” from online. That was the best of the three. 48 states down, two more to go. Delaware and Connecticut are all that’s left.
You might be wondering about the Rotary picture at the top. A rotary is similar to a roundabout but bigger and allows for a higher rate of speed. We saw these here in Massachusetts. It was a long day and we’re tired but we enjoyed our short time in Massachusetts. This was my second trip and Tom’s first. I’d like to come back some time and show him all the other amazing sites in Boston.
We hope your day was enjoyable as well. Tomorrow we head to New Jersey.
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