Boston, MA

    Arrived in Elaina's cousin Mikey's town just south of Boston with just a few minutes to spare to make the train into the city (the next one was in 2 hours). With that said, we SPRINTED to the stop which is about a 5-10 minute walk. Running parallel with the tracks we watched the train leave... classic. So we walked back to the house optomistic that we now could see Mikey and Theresa after they got home from work and make dinner. Ended up being so helpful to get advice on where to go and how to get there. You'd think we would have learned our lesson and gotten to the train station with splenty of time to spare... but knowing us we had to sprint to catch the next one, which we did!

     At first when we got there the amount of police seemed a bit ridiculous- but we very soon realized it was 100% necessary. We wandered around Fenway  Park for the first half of the game- there were people everywhere walking around trying to peak into Fenway to watch the game on the TVs inside. When we were in line to get a drink at 7-11 we heard the crowd inside the park going ballistic- everyone in line was scrambling on their phones to try to figure out what happened- it took us about 5 minutes because the servers were so congested to find out they had scored 3 runs! Wooo!! 

     As the game progressed the police started pushing the crowds away from the Park and towards Kenmore Square where the real madness began. People were packed like sardines and the more apparent it became that the Red Sox were most likely going to win the higher the energy level raised. So many chants were happening at one time- it was funny how many more people were screaming  Yankees suck rather than Cardinals suck... The moment they won was nuts- people getting pulled off of flatbed trucks by the police, people hanging out of trees and light posts, and an endless sea of people jumping around and screaming. 

   It was one of the craziest nights of our lives and we feel so lucky to have been able to experience it. Can't wait to brag to my kids about it!! :) 

    The next night we spent with a good friend from home at Northeastern, Alicia Dias. :) It was Halloween so we went to goodwill, scrounged up some last minute costumes and walked around the city. Always so awesome to see friends from home in their new homes!