Hello all! Welcome back to our blog!
We're super excited to blog about our honeymoon because we had a FABULOUS time. We saw some really cool things and had a lot of crazy experiences. There are a couple things, however, we would like you to keep in mind as you look at these pictures.
#1 It was HOT! There was a massive heat wave that hit the east coast while we were there. In the pictures, you'll notice that we always have a glow. Yes, it's part a love glow due to the the fact that we just got married and are in love but, it's mostly just the glow of sweat.
To illustrate this point, I'll show you a couple pictures we took in New York.
This is at night so you can only imagine how hot it was when you factor how hot it gets in the middle of the day along with the humidity and the fact that we walked A LOT. Just putting that out there...
#2 It wasn't in the budget to hire a photographer to follow us around and take all our pictures and we didn't trust our camera in the hands of some of those around us so you're going to see a lot of these shots...
Usually we're taking them to show that we're standing in front of something cool but the shot just ends up being our big heads blocking it. Sometimes it worked out to get someone to take it and sometimes we were able to use the timer but this was the easiest technique. We just wanted to warn you.
Let's get on to the fun!
We were married in St. George so after all the awesome fun we had at our wedding and luncheon, we took a shuttle to Las Vegas. We spent the evening in the Monte Carlo and it was awesome. Since I lived so close to Vegas growing up, I had never stayed in one of the fancy hotels. It was fun to have that experience.
When we got to our room, it looked like it hadn't been properly cleaned after the last user. We called the front desk and they ended up upgrading our room to the second from the top floor of the hotel. We were on the 31st floor right under the penthouses!
This is a picture of the big sign on top of the hotel that we could see from our room.
The next morning, we flew to Boston.
After we landed, we rented a car and drove straight to Fenway Park to see the Red Sox. We parked the car and as we made our way up the stairs, we saw this random bowling pin walking down the street.
You can't go to a baseball game and not get a hot dog. Our Fenway Franks were delicious!
Fenway Park was very cool. It is the oldest baseball stadium in the US still in use and they still have a scoreboard where someone has to manually change the scores.
The Boston Red Sox fans are absolutely crazy. They are OBSESSED with their team. We were probably the only people in the entire park who weren't wearing some kind of Red Sox paraphernalia.
Also, the park was packed. It wasn't a playoff game or anything but, it was full. We were lucky we got our tickets early because every game the Red Sox have played since May 15, 2003 has sold out. We didn't get seats with our tickets; there was just a section were we were able to stand.
The Green Monster
Chris with our rental car. We upgraded and got a sweet SUV.
Chris served part of his mission in Boston so on Sunday, we went to church in his old area, Framingham.
We ate at a Brazilian restaurant and Chris was in heaven.
One of the things that I loved about Boston was that it was so green. It was so beautiful. I didn't get any pictures but a lot of the buildings and homes were built in the old colonial style. It was hard to tell if they were old or just built to look old.
DUNKIN' DONUTS!!! We visited this place a LOT during our trip. Probably too much. But SO good.
Since it was the 4th of July, later that evening we went into Boston and met up with one of Chris's old mission companions to watch the fireworks on the Charles River. In all the excitement we forgot to take a picture with his companion. Oops.
The fireworks were beautiful. It was great to celebrate the nations birthday in such a patriotic place.
This was our actual first trip to Dunkin' Donuts. Best. donuts. ever.
We went into Boston on Monday morning to walk the Freedom Trail, a guided tour of some of Boston's historic landmarks. We walked through a park called Boston Common to get to the starting point. This is me in Frog Pond, a wading pool, on our way there. It felt so good to get my feet wet.
Chris hangin' with some frogs.
Me and Chris in front of a fountain close to the head of the Freedom Trail.
This is our tour guide in front of the State House. The golden dome on top of the building is really gold. Our tour guide was great. She was dressed in period clothes and was very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the history. She had a great sense of humor as well. Very entertaining.
The tour guide in front of the Park Street Church.
The next stop on our tour was the Granary Burying Ground. Numerous famous historic figures including Paul Revere, Benjamin Franklin's parents, Samuel Adams and John Hancock were buried there. This was a sign in front of it.
John Hancock's tombstone. There was interesting story involved with his gravestone involving his wife hating him and grave robbery but you'll have to visit it to hear it.
This is where the great Paul Revere was laid to rest.
Chris in front of a tombstone. Almost all of them had some form of a skull with wings. Something about the angel of death. I should have taken notes.
Awwww...
The Kings Chapel. The columns are made of wood and the steeple was never finished.
This is a plaque to commemorate a spring where the citizens of Boston got water. It is all dried up now.
Random Red Coats converging.
This is the Old State House which was the seat of British Government before the Revolution and afterwards served as the Commonwealth’s first capitol building, with the office of the state’s first governor, John Hancock.
Another shot of the Old State House.
Me and Chris with our tour guide at the end of the Freedom Trail.
Boston was great. We really enjoyed it and would've liked to spend more time there. We were off later that day to New York so stay tuned for part II and pictures from that crazy place...
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