Happy Birthday America!! You don't look a day over 200

Hey everybody. How are you? It has been quite a while since I've put anything on this boring blog of mine. Don't be thinking that it means I haven't been doing anything. There are about three or so posts that need to be put up with events that have taken place in the past month since I last blogged. One very important one was our Northeastern Fourth of July Trip.
I've always wanted to go to Boston to see the fireworks on the Fourth, and was thinking about it this year, but Mel and I didn't really make firm plans for the holiday other than our Yankees game that we got tickets to, courtesy of Mel's dad. So we went, and had some sweet seats. Unfortunately, the Yankees decided that they would end their winning streak on the game we went to.
So, our plan was to spend the holiday with Mel's family since we didn't really have anywhere else to go. However, Kade mentioned that he was going to be in Boston with Dear Brenda, visiting his sister, Kami Jo. Knowing that we'd be in Connecticut already, I knew that I had to go to Boston to hang out with them and see the fireworks there.
Boston is by far my favorite city here in the States. I had only been once before, and it had been nearly four years since my last trip, but I still loved it.
We left on Saturday morning, and got to Kami's house at 9:00 am, just in time to get breakfast.We went to Mike's City Diner (as featured in the Food Network's "Diner's Drive-ins and Dives"). We had some delicious pancakes, and then got headed out for some adventuring.


First stop was to find the creapy baby head I had seen in pictures, and knew I needed to find them for my own pictures. We went to the Museum of Fine Art, and sure enough they were there

Next stop was to head out on our whale watching tour.

We got on our ship with Captain Debbie, and headed out. While leaving the outer harbor, we passes a bunch of islands and lighthouses.

Here's a view of the city as we were pulling out.
We cruised for about 1.5 hours and then got to the preserve area where they find the whales. And sure enough, there were whales a-plenty.


Then we came back and were really hungry. So we went to Legal Seafood where I was dissuaded from getting the Lobster Feast (it was $50 a person), which sounded delicious.
I settled on the Lobster Roll, which turned out to be rather tasty.
After dinner, we headed out to find the Old North Church, and Paul Revere's Home (I'll spare the pics).


This is Kade being angry or something.
We next decided to head towards Cambridge to get a spot for the fireworks. However, on our way there, we passed a happening Italian bakery in Little Italy. Since it was so hopping, we decided that we needed a treat for our firework watching.



They were tasty.
It was cold so, I bought a sweatshirt, which was good because last time I was there I wanted one, but hadn't bought it. I didn't use it, cause my wife got a little chilly, but at least I now have a souvenir from this trip.
Then the fireworks were awesome!! The best fireworks I've ever seen.
See Look: (there were about 30 minutes of this)



And The Finale:
So there you have it, that was how I spent my Independence day. It's definitely my favorite holiday, and I think this may have been the best one. I would go to Boston in a heartbeat next year.