Annenberg (Harvard campus)
Sam Adams Brewery Tour
Red Sox vs. Devil RaysI just accidentally closed out this webpage and lost all of the blog entry I had been so carefully crafting, so I'm going to settle for the abridged version of week 2.
Tim and I took our two days off and made a trip to Boston this week. We bought tickets to Wednesday's Red Sox game and arranged to stay at the apartment of a fellow UGA grad. We got into Boston around 10:00AM on Wednesday and spent the morning "touring" Harvard. It was our original intention to sneak into a class to sit in on a lecture, but as it turns out Harvard is a hot spot for tourism so the campus is kept under lock-and-key to keep less intelligent miscreants like us from absorbing any of their privileged knowledge. We went 0 for 4 on successfully cracking the security blocks of various buildings, including the library, but were finally able to sneak into Robinson Hall, which, as luck would have it, is home to the Department of History. Unfortunately that's about when our luck ran out because Harvard was in its intersession, so no classes were being held. Should have tried MIT. I swear that story was funnier the first time I wrote this.
Next on the itinerary was locating the future home of our friend Sara, who is moving up to Boston in the fall to take a job with Google. After a 30 minute trek through rainy Boston suburbia/pit-stop at Taco Bell (with the exception of one pathetic Dairy Queen there are no fast-food restaurants on MV so we indulged at every available opportunity while we were in Boston), we were able to find her place and figured the best way to celebrate was by taking a tour of the nearby Sam Adams Brewery.
The brewery is nestled in a little neighborhood on the south end of the city. We made it just in time for the last tour of the day. The tour did not require reservations, was free of admission, and provided us with complimentary samples of their products. Needless to say, the self-promotion worked and I have a new-found appreciation for Sam Adams. The history/expansion of the company and brew-making process are very interesting. I had a nice little blurb in my journal that discussed some of the finer points, but since I'm having to retype this entire entry, I'm instead going to direct you to a website that has done all of the work for me:
http://www.samueladams.com/samsite/company.html
Additionally, the brewery provided us with postcards that they mail free of charge, so Mom and Dad and VC, you should be getting a postcard shortly.
After the tour ended, it was time to make our way to famed Fenway ballpark for the Red Sox game. Fenway definitely lives up to its reputation. Rather than drone on and on about how fun the game was, I'll post pictures later. Boston certainly loves its baseball team. And basketball team too, obviously. It was pretty cool to be in the city right in the middle of the Celtics hype. The city was decked out in green "Beat L.A." shirts and they even started a "Go Celts" chant in the middle of the baseball game. The game was without a doubt the highlight of my trip to Boston and I am already entertaining the idea of flying into some other major cities to watch their teams play.
With that being said, no team can or will replace my stalwart devotion to the Atlanta Braves.
We stayed the night at Sarah Cherry's apartment, which was 15 minutes walking from Fenway. Sarah and her husband were so nice to accommodate us on such short notice and it was great to stay in a home of a fellow Dawg. The next morning we had plans to walk the Freedom Trail and check out some of the more historic sights of the city, but after about an hour and a half of walking around, we decided we were exhausted and had seen everything that we needed to see, so we caught an earlier flight back home.
As my travel bug condition worsens, I already have my next two trips mapped out for the next two weeks. Some of my coworkers made a game-time decision to take a weekend trip to Bermuda yesterday, so they jumped on a plane at 7AM this morning to reach a connecting flight in Boston. I'm haven't come up with anything quite that ridiculous yet, but I've got all summer to cook something up.
Well I guess this entry wasn't as abridged as I thought it would be.
Tim and I took our two days off and made a trip to Boston this week. We bought tickets to Wednesday's Red Sox game and arranged to stay at the apartment of a fellow UGA grad. We got into Boston around 10:00AM on Wednesday and spent the morning "touring" Harvard. It was our original intention to sneak into a class to sit in on a lecture, but as it turns out Harvard is a hot spot for tourism so the campus is kept under lock-and-key to keep less intelligent miscreants like us from absorbing any of their privileged knowledge. We went 0 for 4 on successfully cracking the security blocks of various buildings, including the library, but were finally able to sneak into Robinson Hall, which, as luck would have it, is home to the Department of History. Unfortunately that's about when our luck ran out because Harvard was in its intersession, so no classes were being held. Should have tried MIT. I swear that story was funnier the first time I wrote this.
Next on the itinerary was locating the future home of our friend Sara, who is moving up to Boston in the fall to take a job with Google. After a 30 minute trek through rainy Boston suburbia/pit-stop at Taco Bell (with the exception of one pathetic Dairy Queen there are no fast-food restaurants on MV so we indulged at every available opportunity while we were in Boston), we were able to find her place and figured the best way to celebrate was by taking a tour of the nearby Sam Adams Brewery.
The brewery is nestled in a little neighborhood on the south end of the city. We made it just in time for the last tour of the day. The tour did not require reservations, was free of admission, and provided us with complimentary samples of their products. Needless to say, the self-promotion worked and I have a new-found appreciation for Sam Adams. The history/expansion of the company and brew-making process are very interesting. I had a nice little blurb in my journal that discussed some of the finer points, but since I'm having to retype this entire entry, I'm instead going to direct you to a website that has done all of the work for me:
http://www.samueladams.com/samsite/company.html
Additionally, the brewery provided us with postcards that they mail free of charge, so Mom and Dad and VC, you should be getting a postcard shortly.
After the tour ended, it was time to make our way to famed Fenway ballpark for the Red Sox game. Fenway definitely lives up to its reputation. Rather than drone on and on about how fun the game was, I'll post pictures later. Boston certainly loves its baseball team. And basketball team too, obviously. It was pretty cool to be in the city right in the middle of the Celtics hype. The city was decked out in green "Beat L.A." shirts and they even started a "Go Celts" chant in the middle of the baseball game. The game was without a doubt the highlight of my trip to Boston and I am already entertaining the idea of flying into some other major cities to watch their teams play.
With that being said, no team can or will replace my stalwart devotion to the Atlanta Braves.
We stayed the night at Sarah Cherry's apartment, which was 15 minutes walking from Fenway. Sarah and her husband were so nice to accommodate us on such short notice and it was great to stay in a home of a fellow Dawg. The next morning we had plans to walk the Freedom Trail and check out some of the more historic sights of the city, but after about an hour and a half of walking around, we decided we were exhausted and had seen everything that we needed to see, so we caught an earlier flight back home.
As my travel bug condition worsens, I already have my next two trips mapped out for the next two weeks. Some of my coworkers made a game-time decision to take a weekend trip to Bermuda yesterday, so they jumped on a plane at 7AM this morning to reach a connecting flight in Boston. I'm haven't come up with anything quite that ridiculous yet, but I've got all summer to cook something up.
Well I guess this entry wasn't as abridged as I thought it would be.
1 comment:
I'm so jealous that you can just hop on a plane at a moment's notice and go wherever you please!
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