But what all-stars they have! Pretty much everything on display was a masterpiece.
We then went to a sandwich place for lunch:
We took a bus out to Mt. Auburn Cemetery, a national historic landmark. The literature we received at the cemetery said that the success of the landscaping led to public parks and gardens becoming more popular in America.
At the top of a tower placed at the highest spot in the cemetery:
Waiting to take the bus back to Cambridge:
A friend had recommended that we go to John Harvard's Brew House, so of course we did! We had some beer and appetizers.Outside:
Inside:
Back in Boston, we stopped in a park to decide our next move:
This street sign was not so helpful, at least from this angle:
Without realizing that there was a Bruins home playoff game taking place that night, we decided to eat at Boston Beer Works. The restaurant was right across the street from the Garden, where the Bruins and Celtics play:
We were pretty much the only people not wearing Bruins or Red Sox gear. We were early enough to get a table right away:
Yum!
I had one of their microbrews that had actual blueberries in it:
Walking back to the apartment, we stopped at another Boston institution, Mike's Pastry. There were lines out the door and snaking down the block most nights. We weren't willing to wait that long, but this night was crowded inside, but not to an unmanageable degree.Here's Brian, placing his order:
And with the pastries:
We each had a cannoli for dessert, and then another one for breakfast the next day. They were good, but not any better than any other pastry we ate this week. I don't understand the long lines!
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