So, we have been getting the emails about the boat show, and we have this thread, and we had a wonderful boating season last year, and are looking forward to another good year, and so (repeated word intentional!) wanting to take the train from Dover into Boston to go to the show, and having already printed out our tickets for the show, I sat down last night and made our reservations on the Downeaster. Even splurged on going business class.
Got up this morning, grabbed everything and headed for Dover. Good drive even with the inch or so of new snow, a nice train ride into Boston, a easy run on the "T" (my have things changed over the years). Got off the Silver Line at the World Trade Center station, walked across the street and could not get into the Convention Center. So (there's that word again) we walked over to the Westin Hotel and asked the concierge how to get into the show, and after seeing the surprise on the young man's face, I knew what I had done
.
Yep, a nice dry run to get to the Boat Show that we are
still looking forward to go to.
So (yep, again) as not to waste the day, we got back on the T, got off for the Blue line to go to the Aquarium, only to find out they are running shuttle busses to Aquarium. It's not that far a walk
so we walked down in a wind chill of a gazillion below zero, and saw a throng (not thong) of mommies and daddies and kiddies, a huge line, an Oh My Gosh line, and did a 180 and went to Legal Seafood for lunch. Then it was back to North Station for a nearly three hour wait for the 5PM train.
What better way to kill some of that time than to do a pub crawl next to N. S. . Did I mention Disney on ice with an 11AM show and a 3 PM show? Yet another throng of kiddies, but they don't like to sit at the bar, but we do.
So (last one) a couple of drinks and a nacho appetizer, and we wandered back to N. S., caught the train back to Dover, and made it home.
Now that we have done our dry run, we will be seasoned travellers once again, and WILL have a great time at the boat show NEXT week.
That is if they let me out of the padded cell motel!
