Fenway Park and Boston Tea Party

After a wet afternoon yesterday, we woke this morning to a clear sky and a temperature of 2 degrees with snow/ice on the ground and an expected maximum of 6 degrees. Yuck. But on a positive note, we'll be in the Caribbean in about one week.

About 11am we head off to Fenway Park, the home of the Boston Red Sox. We are a little dubious as neither of us have an interest in baseball but our expectations are well and truly exceeded. We went on a tour of the park which is the oldest baseball park in America. The tour guide was very informative and a good time was had by all. It was still freezing during and after the tour.

From there we jumped on a tourist trolley which is a bus that does loops of the city pointing out historic spots or points of interest. There is a 'Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum' attraction which uses re-enactments and multi-media to tell the story of the Boston Tea Party. The holographic effects were brilliant: two ladies talking and you thought they were real until they disappeared like stardust. (Still freezing!)

There is only one actual artifact in the museum and that is a tea crate. The only other surviving crate from those dumped in the river is in Washington.

Tomorrow we fly to Ontario to see the prodigal son. And suffer more cold weather!