Boston, MA (10th and 11th July 2013)

Lore & Lobster :)

We arrived at South Station very early as, for once, the overnight bus ride (from NYC to Boston) was too short! So we stayed a while inside the station, had a donut & hot chocolate based breakfast, reorganized our bags and planned the upcoming day. As we left the Station it was around 9 am and we had decided for continuing the Freedom Trail from the Quincy Market / Feneuil Hall, where we had left on past friday. Our goal was to  reach Charlestown on the other part of the bridge and see the USS Constitution, an old ship of the United States Navy (the oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat). It was named by President Washington after the Constitution if the United States. But we never made it to Charlestown as we had to change route and head to the Liberty wharf to the Legal Seafood Restaurant, where we met some very good friends, Bruce and Sally, for lunch. It was not by chance that we were in a seafood restaurant. In fact, Lore wanted to try lobster. Fortunately Bruce took lobster too, so that he could show Lore how to the that sea monster step by step :) It was actually real fun to watch him rip the crustacea apart....maybe a bit dangerous for the people sitting next to him or in front of him...

We had a really nice time with Bruce and Sally and concluded lunch with a delicious boston cream pie and a group picture along the pier.

After that lobster adventure we returned to Somerville where Nick and Rebecca, our Boston hosts, live. After a chat with Nick we went for groceries, as we cooked for them that evening. On the menu: pork steaks with cream sauce and mushrooms, wild rice and steamed carrots. After dinner Nick (Rebecca was not home that night) took us for a walk in Somerville and we stopped at the orange leaf, a frozen jogurt place :P 

We really had some nice and fun talk and once back home we even played Jenga, which we both hadn't played for ages...

The following morning we packed our stuff, had breakfast and around 11.30 am Nick drove us to the metro station, where we took the red line followed by the silver line direction Logan airport. 

What a nice welcome!!

Our flight to San Diego left at 6.45 pm with a delay of 1 hour. We really had a nice week on the east coast but also tiring, so we were looking forward to our 3 week stay in San Diego. We landed at about 9 pm local time and we took the bus to our new home :) 

During our San Diego vacation we will stay with Leanne and Chino, who rent us a room in their house. They are friends of friends of ours we met the last time we were in SD. They are a really nice couple and their welcoming was just perfect. In front of the main entrance Chino wrote Welcome to San Diego in blue chalk and on our bed we found towels and books about south California and San Diego Hikes. Happy and excited for this new chapter in our trip, our eyes closed as soon as we touched our new soft bed....