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Published: September 11th 2008
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It was a long flight but an absolutely beautiful landing over the fall colors and quaint houses of New Hampshire. Took a relatively short bus ride into Boston and found our room at Hotel@MIT in Cambridge! Thank the universe they were able to get us a room early because we were exhausted after our travels. This is definitely one of the coolest places I've stayed. Perfect bed, funky, modern room, nice view, and a Star Market connected to the hotel without even having to leave the building. We picked up some egg salad finger sandwiches for lunch, bananas, those new Oreo snack cakes (awesome) and a bunch of little waters to carry around with us. This is a great hotel but somehow I feel like I m not even in Boston. It's too new and too nice, not like the old charm of the brownstones and clunky heaters that stick out from the wall and old tile one-person showers. Not that I m complaining. 😉 This is nice.
After taking about a 5-hour "nap", we got up and headed to Berklee, walking over the bridge at night to see all the city lights. I tried to get some shots of
the Citgo sign since that's near where Fernie used to live, but it was hard to take a good photo in the dark. We walked by all the old haunts down Mass. Ave and after much deliberation ended up eating dinner at Bangkok City Thai restaurant. It was awesome, fresh, not too much food and no leftovers. F got the tofu fried rice and I got the cashew tofu with semi-spicy brown sauce. After dinner we walked to the Dunkin Donuts across from Berklee and grabbed hot chocolates and a Boston Kreme donut and took it to the reflecting pool, one of my old favorite places to walk, sit, and have conversations with friends. Walking back from Dunkin Donuts, cup in hand, I really felt like I could ve been living here again!
We walked to Berklee and I snapped some photos. L3 happened to be open, the mixing studio in the little hallway off the lobby where they mixed my song "All You Need is Time." More memories! We headed back over the bridge and "snuck" into MIT on the way back around midnight and found an open math classroom and took some photos, posing like professors. 😊
Our Hotel Room
Equations on the bedspread! Day Two What a day! We got up early and walked to the Berklee bookstore, saw my old friend Tim in the Concert Office (I'm a bit surprised he recognized me as it's been a few years!), met my former boss and friend Tony at the Sunset Cantina, Took the T to Fernie's old apartment and Fordham Road rehearsal studios, bought a couple cute little flashlights that make animal noises at the art store (don't ask - it was Fernie's idea!), and then stopped and had drinks at Uno's in the Fenway area. After all that walking we took the bus back to our hotel and then met our friend Ethan at The Cheesecake Factory where we spent a few hours catching up.
Day Three There's something so cool about room service breakfast! I think this was my first one, actually. Fernie surprised me by ordering while I was getting ready. Omelettes, toast and jelly, potatoes, and fresh squeezed orange juice - so yummy. He ordered mine with English muffins instead of toast like his, and my omelette with swiss cheese. He knows me well. 😊 We're having an amazing time - the
weather has been beautiful. We'll hit
the rain and storms in New York, Toronto, and Michigan I'm sure, so I'm holding on to the blue skies while I can!
We met Fernie's friend and old roommate Isaac for lunch at a sushi place, good food, good conversation, and a ton of leftovers! Unfortunately we couldn't do much with leftovers in our hotel room so after walking around with them for a few hours, they were tossed. After lunch we met up for a quick chat with my friend Alena who I stayed with for my last Boston trip in June. We sat in the Boston Commons for a while - they were filming a movie with Kate Hudson and Dane Cook so we had to move to a different area of the park. We walked back to the Berklee Bookstore to pick up a few things and then headed back to the hotel to pack. We walked down the street a bit looking for places to eat (okay, okay, I Googled restaurant recommendations first) and found the most amazing little pizza place with gigantic cheesy calzones and ate our last meal in Boston at the hotel.
Perfect weather,
good food, great friends! Now it's time to move on to The Big Apple...
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