Cheers to the Freedom Trail

Now, we had a big old list of places that Paige's parents had given us that they said we should visit (they used to live there years ago, hence it being where Paige was born and all) and I must say they came up trumps! It was a glorious day of sunshine so we headed off on the Freedom Trail so we could go and see all of the sights that we could possibly want to see. I even set foot inside a couple of church's which is unheard of for me but they were beautiful and one of them had the oldest pulpit in America! So there you go. As we were wondering along the red line through Boston, we hit a street which sounded familiar to Paige as she said the 'Cheers' bar was on there. So we took a little detour down a big hill (I didn't like the thought of going back up it in the heat - took me back to the days of San Fran!) and stumbled across it. Was pretty cool to be there and I wanted to buy some memorabilia for the folks but it was all a bit naff really! We then got back on the Freedom Trail until we hit Faneuil Hall which had a great buzz. We pottered around the market and found a massive piece of macaroni (as you do!) and Paige was extremely pleased as she's a huge fan (she is in the mac pic above - see if you can spot her!). We then found some cookies the size of our faces (literally) so all in all we were pretty glad we'd stopped there! We were then commandeered by some old bloke dressed up funny until he kindly told us that his name was Benjamin Franklin! What are the chances of bumping into him in Boston eh! So we got to chatting and it turns out he lives on the same street that Paige's Mum lives on in London so I think it was fate that the two of them were brought together like this! I had to cement this chance encounter with a photo (which cost me $2 but I figured he was saving up to get back to London) and was pretty pleased that we'd bumped into him. After a LOT more walking (I'm not complaining, I just wanted to emphasise that we'd walked a really long way that day!) we came to the U.S.S Constitution which is the oldest working Navy ship in the world to still be...er....working! So some very nice, jolly sailor gave us a grand tour and we got to see what life was like for the Navy guys back then, scurvy and all! I thought I could give Johnny Depp a good run for his money at the wheel!