april 17,2008 Paul Revere's house Boston Gardens

Mark and I started the day eating breakfast at Tedann's house. Then we made our way to the Paul Revere house on the Freedom Trail.It was built in 1680's and was owned by Paul Revere from 1770-1800's.On April 18, 1775 Paul Revere left his North Square home, slipped out of the city in a rowboat,borrowed a horse in Charlestown, and began rudung. His mission :to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington that British troops were marching from Boston to arrest them and seize munitions hidden in Concord.Paul Revere died in 1818 aged 83, having contributed not only to the cause of American liberty, but also to the cultural and industrial independence of a new nation. We then headed again on the freedom trail to Faneuil Hall.It was built in 1742 it included an open market and also a meeting space for the town government. The lower level of the hall was divided into stalls which were leased for market purposes.The large meeting room on the second floor became Boston's official town hall. Here in public session Bostonians debated issues, elected town officials, voted local taxes, and spent town monies. IT was a structure that the first rumblings of the American Revolution were felt. Next we saw the New England Holocaust Memorial. It features six luminous glass towers, etched ith six million numbers in memory of the Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Its towers are set on a black granite path, each over a dark smoldering chamber bearing the name of one of the principal Nazi death camps.The six towers recall the death camp chimneys, the six million jews, or a menorah of memorial candles. We them went to an very old cementary in the middle of town. We them stopped for a treat at a downtown Wendy's for a a frosty and french fries. Next we made our way to the Boston public Gardens. There are guides dressed up like the early settlers of Boston to guide you through if you want but we deceided to just walk by our selves. We kept seeing signs for the Boston Marathon they will runit on Monday April 21. I did not know that you had to qualify and show them a specific time that you can run the marathon for them to let you get an official number to run, very intresting. There are also some swan boats that can take you on the pond in the middle of the gardens, they were gearing up for opening day which was going to be Saturday so we were not able to ride. Then we just sat and looked at Gods beautiful creations and talked for a while. We ere eating some peanuts and a squirrell must have smelled us and came right up to Mark. So mark continued to feed him for a while, I was kind of scared when we were out because the squirrell wanted more. Also in the gardens are bronze statues of the duckling from the book Watch out for ducklings which made the Boston Gardens so popular.Next we made our way to meet Tedann as she was getting off work so we all could go home together. We then made meatloaf and potatoes at her place for dinner. We then watched August Rush it was very good and right up our ally with lots of music in the score.