Remembering our first trip to Boston

I'm not gonna lie.  The first time Chuck and I visited Boston, we were not huge fans. We have since visited and our views have been changed, but that first trip... it was rough. In October of 2010, we decided to go up to Boston for the LGO Ambassador Day, even though Chuckie knew he may not apply until the next Fall. Well, unfortunately the Ambassador Day fell on a Monday- October 25- and two of our best friends happened to be getting married on Saturday, October 23. So we made the perfect plan. We would participate in the wedding festivities (we were both in the bridal party) and fly up to Boston the morning after at 7 a.m. (Genius, right?) So after maybe 3 hours of sleep, we went to the airport that Sunday morning, only to find out our flight was delayed. I won't go through the whole long story of our flight troubles that day, but here's the Reader's Digest version:

Flight delayed until 11. Flight delayed again until 1. We look for other options. We see a direct flight to Boston from Cincy that will get us there before the 1 pm flight from Louisville.  A taxi takes us to Cincinnati. Meanwhile, our bags fly to Atlanta on our original flight. We take the flight from Cincy to Boston and miraculously our bags are already there waiting for us! But we arrive in Boston at 7 pm- originally supposed to arrive at 12:30 that day.

By the time we got in town, we were so exhausted from traveling all day (and on 3 hours of bad sleep) that we ate dinner at a restaurant in Harvard Square and then crashed in our hotel by 9:30. While walking to the T from the restaurant, a homeless man held a blade in the air and said "I have a message for all you rich people. I have an atomic bomb. You're all gonna die. And I'm gonna kills ya." ("I'm gonna kills ya" has now become one of our favorite things to quote often.)

John Harvard's- a place I'm sure we will frequent once we live there.

Monday we spent all day at MIT. It was great.

The Great Dome- the famous MIT building

Tuesday we took our bags to the airport and left them and then ventured into the city for a couple hours until we had to be back for our flight. We didn't know where to go or what to do, so we literally got on the T and chose a random stop. We walked around aimlessly for an hour, ate at a seafood restaurant where we had a mean waiter, saw Rondo's picture on a building and got excited, and then headed back to the airport. 

We may have chosen a random T stop, but we chose a good one!

Back at the airport, there was of course yet ANOTHER flight delay. This one was only 20-30 minutes though but it was just enough to make us miss our connecting flight from Cincy back to Louisville. Six other people had also missed that flight so they paid for us to ride in a big van back to Louisville with a driver who I'm pretty certain was drunk. He almost drove off the road several times, and when we stopped at Wendy's for some food, he gave Chuckie a couple quarters and asked him to bring him a large Diet Coke. We arrived in Louisville at 11:30- supposed to have arrived at 9:00.

So when I say our first trip to Boston was not great, you can see I am not exaggerating. Although I did call the airline company and complain quite a bit after we were back and they ended up giving us each $150 towards our next flight.