K, Eric & I met our friends Kent, Kathy, Marissa and Julia in Boston on Saturday for three days of vacation. We played tourist.

Sunday we toured the USS Constitution, and the Freedom trail including the Old North Church, Paul Revere’s house, ending up at Faneuil Hall. Monday we visited Harvard’s Museum of Natural History, the New England Aquarium and watched the IMAX movie Under The Sea 3D. We hiked to see the site of the Boston Tea Party, but it burned down two years ago. Tuesday we visited the Mapparium at the Mary Baker Eddy Library and the Museum of Science.

Below Jim, Eric, Kent, Julia, Kathy and Marissa in front of the USS Constitution.

Eric follows the Freedom Trail.

Kathy, Julia and Eric in front of the Old North Church.

A statute of Paul Revere points to the tower at the Old North Church where the lanterns were hung “One if by land, Two if by sea”.

Paul Revere’s kitchen.

Eric gets a balloon hat outside of Faneuil Hall.

Painting of the Daniel Webster’s speech to Congress which hangs inside Faneuil Hall.

Eric in front of a Triceratops at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Eric and Julia in front of a pre-historic sea monster.

The Mapparium.

Eric in front of the Pacific Tidal Pool at the Aquarium.