Day 8 - Going home!

We woke up to another cloudy day. Here's the view from our hotel room. We stayed at the Marriott Long Wharf, which really is right on the harbor.

After getting Dunkin' Donuts for breakfast, we headed over to see if we could ride the Swan Boats before the forecasted deluge began. It took two differet trains, plus a walk of a bout a block & a half to get there from our hotel. We arrived at the public gardens and never felt a drop. Fortunately, the weather must have scared off everybody else, because we were able to walk right on a boat without waiting!

We saw a few real swans, lots of ducks, and even some ducklings. (Yes, we made way for them!)

Then we walked over to the statues of Mrs. Mallard, Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Oack, Pack & Quack. Brynn wanted to to be a "Cow-duck girl"



After that we wandered around the public gardens and Boston Common, looking at things like fire hydrants, bugs on the sidewalk, etc. It was a lot of walking, but when Brynn got tired of walking, she just switched to jumping:



We took the T back to Quincy Market, where we ate Pizza on the steps of the building and watched a great street performer "LuckyBob" while we ate lunch. Shopped around a bit, then returned to the hotel for our van & luggage.

We had a little extra time, so we did quick drive-bys at the Old North Church, USS Constitution, and Bunker Hill before we drove out to the airport and flew home. The trip home was exhausting, Brynn pooped her pants on the plane (and airplane potties are not easy places to clean up a mess like that....) and everyone but me slept.

We arrived home at midnight Utah time (it felt like 2 am to us, though!) and just went straight to bed. Kind of surreal to spend most of the day so far away and sleep in my own bed that night.