Our one year anniversary was last week - May 12th. Brendon surprised me with a fun-filled trip to Boston, MA. Neither of us had ever been, and we absolutely loved it there! Our first day we had a guided tour of a large part of the Freedom Trail, and we took a break in the North End to enjoy delicious pastries. Mine was a chocolate chip cannoli...I don't know what Brendon's was called but it was as big as his head almost. Ha ha. At the end of the Freedom Trail we boarded the U.S.S. Constitution a.k.a. "Old Ironsides" for a tour that was very wonderful. We took the harbor cruise back to our hotel on the wharf, then we explored Harvard Yard and had enormous, delicious hamburgers and fries at Mr. Bartley's. After all the pastries and hamburgers and french fries we had to be rolled back to our hotel. Sunday morning we had breakfast at Faneuil Hall and watched some amazing street performers. This man was an Aussie Tom Cruise look-alike that fit his entire body through a toilet seat, tennis raquet, and squash racket (those things are small!) simultaneously. It was pretty impressive. There were lots of places we wanted to eat and a limited time in which to do so, so only an hour after breakfast we went to Durgin Park for lunch to get an authentic Boston meal of baked beans, clam chowder, and corn bread. Yummy. After lunch we rented a car with "Miss Garmin" (we named our GPS navigational system) and drove to Plymouth Rock. While munching on the salt water taffy we bought we saw the rock and toured the Mayflower. We went to Plymouth Plantation next and it was such a neat set up. I loved talking to actors and pretending like I believed their stories that they lived in the 1600's. For dinner it was back to the North End for some of the best Italian food we have ever tasted at Giaccomo's. Monday we took the car to Concord and saw the old North Bridge where the "shot heard round the world" was fired. It is such a beautiful park! We quickly visited the home of Louisa May Alcott (setting for the novel "Little Women") and the graves of Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. After that it was off to the airport and goodbye to New England. It was such a great trip, and we both developed a desire to learn more about the Revolutionary war and the brave heroes involved.
These are our tasty Italian treats from the North End. Yum!
We didn't get a chance to ride the Swan Boats in Public Garden - but a picture by them is the next best thing right?
The famous ducks of "Make Way for Ducklings". It was too dark to get a real good shot.
Our delicious lunch at Durgin Park 
Cheers to Plymouth Plantation!
No, this is not Taryn trying to dress up as a Pilgrim - this is Plymouth Plantation
We forgot our Pilgrim outfits!
The gravesites were so neat - they all had these cryptic, broken, crooked tombstones
All aboard Old Ironsides
Brendon could totally be a "Little Woman"
Old North Bridge
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