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Well the 10 minutes ran out quickly I couldn't even upload the photos so here is take two. We checked out of our fancy hotel and put our luggage in storage. Caught the shuttle to the center of town to ctach the hopon/hopoff bus again. Had a look at independence hall as I think its pretty famous so better go there. It was the first parliament or something. Then we walked upto the biggest US mint which makes all the coins. This was a cool tour learning how the coins are made and stuff. I remember doing this back at primary school. Then we jumped on the bus to the market everyone talks about. Its all local produces and people cooking food- no big food chains. So we had a look around and had another philly ... read more

Very warm today like 15 degrees. Didn't even really need a jacket til late afternoon. Today we decided to again do the touristy thing with the hopon/hopoff bus. So we caught the metro to Central station to get the tickets and start the tour. There were double decker options but the woman said it would leak if it rained and it was drizzling. So went went for the trolley option which is like a tram on wheels. So she took us to Capitol Building first which we think is like the parliment where are the government meetings are. Its a really old building and we got a free tour of it. Everything is free over here- going up the Washington Memorial yesterday and now this. So the guides like you gotta get there early as the ... read more

Up early enough so we could get through a busy day. We started off at the Dixie factory outlets which wasnt that exciting really compared to our DFO. All the stores had like one of everything on racks and the stuff was many seasons ago. So we didnt hang around. Gary dropped myself, Benn and Carolyn off at the subway to catch a train into Toronto city. We had driven around town several times but had actually walked around. So we got out and a big shopping mall and then headed out into the blistery cold. It was the coldest day so far in Toronto. We walked round looking at the shops (it was much more expensive here than in the US) and then we walked into the times square of Toronto with all the lights ... read more

Ok early start at 6am. Headed to subway for our $1.70 ride to the airport. Got to the 'Logan Airport' and checked in with no queues. Headed into the small terminal and waited to board. All of a sudden we hear- 'Flight 357 looking for passenger Logan'. Whoopies we were at the wrong gate and were not listening. So we boarded our small plane and were like the 19th and 20th passenger. We had the whole back end of the plane to oursleves. The flight was baout 2 hours and we were off and in customs in a flash. The luggage carousel was empty with our two bags going round. Mum's friend Gary with his wife Carolyn were there to pick us up. We got into Gary's Yuekon (massive car) and headed back to his place. ... read more

Got up and checked out and walked upto bus stop 2 blocks up. Jumped on the Megabus to go to Boston. It was a 4 hour bus trip and the bus even had wifi! So we got on the laptop and mobiles to catch up on whats going on. Even had powerpoints but Benn left the charger in the suitcase. Didn’t end up needing it anyway as we were soon asleep. I woke up and looked out the window and everything was white and it was snowing! So we arrived in Boston at 1pm. We started walking in the rain and as all the sidewalks have been cleared from the snow, all the snow builds up on the side. As we went to cross the road the step down and snow was deceiving as Benn put ... read more