A famous Boston Tour!

And so begin our summer tours of our most favorite city(and areas around. ) We got into the car last weekend and were very nervous.Where can we go?we thought,and then we said of course to Cambridge!! Now there is so much to see there that PL1+2 couldn't get everything and PL2 had to divide it into part one and two.Part 1 is alot of historical and part 2 will be to get a flavor of the city.....So sit back and off we go........

Oh for crying out loud PL2 slipped this in....It is in her words THE GREATEST hamberg place in the world.It is very funky and has LOTS of memorabilia from long ago and has THE BEST HAMBERGS,FRENCH FRIES AND ONION RINGS.

OK they threw this in too..This is the Harvard Book Store wherePL1+2 spend HOURS in..........

Oh for crying out loud...whose blog is this?This is the Grolier Poetry Book Store. Besides being a book store of poetry only, the owner used to have dog who ran the store for her and who was there all the time......(PL1 spends a lot of time here)

Get ready,you are going through one of the entrances to the famous Harvard Yard!!!( or to those who do not live in Massachewsitts) Hahvahd Yahd(where you can not pahk your cah because cahs are not allowed)

This is the yard which was inspired by Cambridge University in England in 1630(as the founders came from there)

This is a dorm right in the yard.PL2 says her dorm didn't look like that...

Another dorm. Actually kids were moving out that day Many many famous people in these dorms...Thoreau,Emerson,J.F.K............

Another dorm.......

This is the Widener library named after a Harvard alum who went down on the Titanic. His whole personal library is there. This library has the most UNBELIEVABLE books in the world there and is the largest stack library in the world(I asked to see some but was refused entry.......hurumph...)

They were getting ready for graduation with this tent outside(We don't know when graduation is..)and everyone sits outside..It is lovely.....

Emerson hall named after the famous Ralph Waldo Emerson.......

Administrative offices.....

This is the oldest building. During the revolution american soldiers were quartered there and Harvard College moved to the town of Dover to accomadate them

This is the statue of John Harvard. It is good luck to rub his shoe before finals(see the really shiny foot??)

This is Massachusetts Hall and Presidents Faust's office In1718 troops were quartered here

This is Memorial Hall It has a beautifull memorial to men who fell in the Civil War however only Harvard men and only those who fought who fought for the north !

This is an original pump where the students had to get their water!Can you imagine in the middle of our cold winters!!!!(see the kids moving out?)

....Check out this electric bus!!!!!(outside of the yard)

Leaving through another entrance you can see a bit of the Law School

Now we have left the Yard and thought you might like to see Radcliffe(which used to be the womens part but is now every body)

To get there you must go through the Cambridge Common and there you will see this..a monument to George Washington under a tree and it is where he assumed command of the Continental Army.PL2 tried to get the tree and the monument but as you see didn't.PL1 said it was the same tree...( if you really want to know the truth,part one the history part??Well PL1 provided us with all the historical info.In part 2 which is all the stores and food and stuff??PL2 was the expert there.....)

OK this is enough for part one......Stay tuned for part 2..... Radcliffe,stores,food, abit of what is still left of the old Cambridege from the 60's and indeed Click and Clack's office! Love ,your tour guides A+A at your service