Today was my last day in Boston, and I had a noon train to New York city. I said my farewells to Lisa, and made my way to Boston's BackBay train station where I boarded my train and headed down to NYC. I arrived at New York's Penn Station around 4 in the afternoon. WOW, very daunting being there for the first time and trying to figure things out!! I found a tourist INFO counter, and to my surprise, there was a very helpful agent on duty. His name was Musta...

Today I caught the Subway out to Harvard University.What a beautiful campus!! And the village is really quaint too.I took my photograph standing next to John Harvard!!The grounds are beautifully kept, with green lawns surrounding the walkways, fringed by Cherry Blossoms, which lead to all the lecture halls which are housed in grand buildings.What an impressive campus.After walking around campus I strolled around the village and sat to enjoy the beautiful sunshine...

It was raining!!!Lisa got up early for a breakfast meeting with her boss before her conference started, and I got up at 9am.The Boston Red Sox were playing an afternoon game today against the Tampa Rays!!The game started at 1pm and I was going to head down to the baseball stadium to see if I could get a ticket.I checked with the concierge and he said the game was still on despite the rain.I decided to do the Boston Old Trolly tour in the morning and get dropped o...

Mark took me to the station on Saturday Morning for my train up to Boston.The train left Trenton at 13h57 and I arrived at Boston Back Bay at 19h07.The Marriott Back Bay was a short walk from the station and very convenient.Lisa had already checked into the hotel and was out with clients, so I settled in.She called me at around 8pm to say they were meeting for drinks in the hotel bar and I should come down and join them.I freshened up and met them in the bar.Oleg...

I spent the week with Aurelia & her family just chilling and catching up.We had a BBQ at Linda, Mark's mom's house over the weekend and had great steaks on the braai & a great salad that Linda made.She has a nice garden that the kids run a mock in and ride on their battery operated jeep and can just have a great time.The one night we went to watch a movie with the kids - the Dr Seuss movie - really quite cute!!Anyway, on Thursday Lisa called me and said s...