Why does he have an ice pick, it's 60 degrees outside?

Another 1/2 day of Boston fun was had today. Dan and I got up early AGAIN and said goodbye to our awesome new friend at BC. We had a little snag getting the car out of the parking garage (free parking all weekend though!), but we called to get the gate open and we were on our way.

Today was the driving tour portion of Boston. We drove here and there and everywhere including:

-By Dan's old apartment in Boston

-Past a bunch of colleges(i.e M.I.T., Boston University, and another one besides Harvard)

-up and down the streets of Beacon Hill

-back and forth across bridges over the Charles River (we got a little lost and found ourselves at the same intersection 3 times!

-Around Harvard, passing a group of kids on a college visit...

-back downtown to Faneuil Hall

We hit up the hall for the food court I mentioned yesterday simply because they had New England Clam chowder in a bread bowl. It was amazing. I love bread bowls. They just suck up all the left over soup so you can eat it. Dan ate the whole bowl, which was also amazing. Then I bought Crocks. Then we walked out on the wharf where we decided it would be a good idea to make a short horror film about a man with an ice pick coming up and chasing us. There was a whole scene where Dan stumbled and I made the camera look like I fell too. It didn't make much sense, and we got weird looks, but it pretty much set the tone for the whole day. We're weird.

So we walked back to our car, stopping at a few shops along the way, bidding goodbye to Boston, which had served us well. We loved her, and she embraced us with her inspiration for weird videos and delicious, delicious food. Oh and the desire to not go live in a dorm ever again (though it was nice to visit.

Up next: Providence, Rhode Island. Not actually and island. I like it. It was a short drive, but on our way to our home, so it was good. Sort of rainy/misty today, so it didn't make good scenic driving, but we made our own fun.

We rolled into town around 2:30/3:00 I'd say, and just sort of absent-mindedly drove around for awhile, eventually stumbling upont the Pawtucket Visitors Center. Loved the named, loved the people. We met the COOLEST woman inside, who despite dubbing oficially insane for driving around New England on a day like today, loaded us up with tons of maps and the brilliant idea of driving down along the water to Newport, where the goal was to see Mansions! Ohhh.

We hoped back in the car with newfound hope. I can see why the pilgrims liked this area fo' sho'. It was a fun drive down, however fog impeeded most of the views, but we didn't care. I have plenty of video from the car, and we even found an old abandonded (and we think haunted) house along the way. We turned back around to investigate! This is why I love my roomate.

Newport was cute, and covered in fog. It will most definitley be a stop on our summer road trip up to Maine (yes, it's now in the works). We got a call from the guy who was hosting us tonight (Josh) and he was hoping we'd all go out to dinner, so we headed back up the freeway to Providence. Adventure RULES!

That night we got pub food with our host, listened to some live music, got a short but sweet tour of the city (RISD, Brown) and hung out with Josh's cool roomates in his even cooler apartment/house. It's a BIG old house in Providence, cut up into smaller apartments. His furniture was eclectic, taken from the street or grandparent's houses. I feel in love with the place. Plants everywhere, nothing matched, creaky old floors, a swinging kitchen door. It was rad.

We watched The Science of Sleep (you can really judge people by the movies they watch huh? A documentary one night (very cool) and then The Science of Sleep (also very cool)) and fell asleep. Dan fell asleep wearing his spiderman crock slippers.