Boston part one - epic jetlag, family time and museums

We are now settled into Boston and have adjusted to various things like miles, inches and the right side of the road. Not so much the road as the corridor, we keep having to dodge around confused looking people. Boston is one of our favourite cities a place we could both imagine living in. People say it is a lot like Melbourne, we don't quite see that but it is excellent. 

 Facing a large hotel in Boston looking a little cold! Standing outside the oldest public library in USA

Inside the Boston Library the walls and ceiling was amazing- all libraries should be this pretty.

More beautiful Library photos

(turtle lamp is also pretty but a little random)

After a day of sightseeing in which we got distracted by a beautiful library, tried to walk 3km that turned out to be 3 miles. This trek took us through some pretty shadey areas we both tried to melt into the background we saw three drug deals and walked through the back of china town and saw someone kill a chicken at the back of a restraunt. After walking for about 30 minutes we relised our mistake and hopped on the T and got to Harpoon Brewary which is a similar size to Little Creatures Brewary  there we were super late to meet Chloe from Canberra (because when Australians travel, we always find fellow Australians) for pretzels and beer.

 Beer Can Christmas Tree at Harpoon Brewary.

Chloe was staying with her dear friend Katii who was lovely and helpfully drove us back to our green line T to get home so we didn't have to trek back to the station. 

Then we headed out to the suburbs for an evening of a fairly specific Boston subculture - the international folk dance scene. It's a pretty cosy family like scene and  we remet many of Maeve's friends there, some of whom were pretty excited to be meeting real live Australians (and were even more excited to learn the term 'Aussie'). We both tried our hand at folk dancing -hard to get photos as we were moving pretty fast.

Dinner with the family at an american restruant called Not Your Average Joes an odd mix of American italian and Grill and seafood and burgers. For example Ebba had Spinich Canaloni with Sweet teriyaki sauce which she said was good in an american way. 

There was a whole lot of spinning and Ebba got super dizzy in this contra, much to the frustration of the more serious folk dancers around her! She was pretty good though!

Boga learned a new, rather complicated Greek dance in four similar yet not the same parts.

Today we went and wandered the galleries and yards of Harvard, and Boga took many pictures of squirrels.

so cute.

This one was munching something and looking particularly cute and fat. Ebba was really annoyed and thought Boga was being particulary touristy.

Boga took many photos of Ebba.

Ebba touching John Harvard's shoe for good luck

Ebbas responding photographic skills

This is Boga saying ' isn't the cold lovely' before she got really cold and slighty grumpy.

Ebba under a famous Harvard gate.

we then headed indoors (so warm! so good) to enjoy the three Harvard Art Museums rolled into one, which makes a pretty epic medly of all the art ever. You get ancient Greece, some Japanese landscapes, you turn a corner to find Picasso, Van Gogh and Monet. Makes for some excellent instant culture times.

some favourites:

We thought Peggy would like this one and the one below

Ebba's favourite

Painted by the Artist who painted The Kiss

Fantastic ancient buddhist art 

Ebba being a museum babe

After that we got distracted and put the camera away, partly because we got super hungry and headed off to Insomnia Cookies, a store that must heavily depend on college students. It opens till 3am every night and sells incredibly addictive cookies, as Ebba discovered during her stay at Yale. We had a modest amount and then doubled back to pick up dessert for everyone. So many cookies!

A wander in the Harvard bookshop (known as the Coop. As in for chickens) completed the day. 

Boga is obbsessed with Coop and it took serveral minutes of Ebba hearding to get her to leave the store after an hour or so

Door way at the Coop

serious merchandise Your very own Harvard Medical School Chair for your practice or home study

more serious merchandise. This is the Law school rocking chair. Guaranteed to make your baby a future Harvard lawyer.

Carollers in funny hats - they sung beautifully and made it feel like a proper cold christmas.

On the way home Boga ventured into Starbucks to try to order a semi decent coffee after some Internet research and ordered a triple shot no foam soy flat white. She said it almost resembled something close to coffee.  

Tomorrow is a quiet at home day with our lovely family folk, and possibly a Hanukah party. The day after we will  probably by a return to Harvard. Maybe we'll go searching for an attraction we overheard:

"Let's got see the secret library"

"Oh, where's that? I've never heard of it"

Yep they keep it pretty secret. Enjoying the cold and americianness but missing our lovely Aussies too.

Much Love Ebba and Boga

xxoo