Carter's Mom

I'm a day late posting. Alana and I went to Boston for the weekend. She flew from Houston to Charlotte where I met her, and we flew together to Boston. Obviously, January is not the peak of the travel season, and we were able to get an amazing deal at The Taj.
We couldn't have picked a better location. We could walk almost anywhere we wanted. (and freeze while we were walking). We got there around 4:30, and it was already dark. We took a cab to the hotel. We are not 5-star hotel regulars, so we weren't quite expecting all the tips involved, but the service was amazing! The bellman brought our bags to our room, turned on the lamps, put our suitcases on racks, hung up our coats, and offered to go get us ice.

After we got settled, we decided to meet Beth at Copley Place. The doorman offered to walk us there. I had convinced Alana to not wear her hat because I didn't have one. We really regretted that. I was SO tempted to just grab a hat off someone's head and run. I bought us each a little hat at J-Crew when we reached Copley place. We shopped for a little while, and walked to meet Beth's husband and a few other people. On our way back to the hotel, we stopped at CVS. Ok, us country bumpkins were quite impressed by the 2-story pharmacy.

We were rather tired, so we walked to Maggiano's for dinner and, after walking a circle around the block to realize were only across the street, enjoyed dessert and wine at Finale. We were good girls and split all our food.

The next morning, I sprang out of bed and woke Alana up to start our day. We started at the Public Garden

Stopped for breakfast and shopping and walked all the way to the North End
via the Freedom Trail. (Several times during our jaunt, we questioned whose brilliant idea it was to visit Boston in the middle of the winter) We had lunch (The Nantucket) there and took the T to Harvard.

That evening, we went to Beth's to enjoy pizza with her parents and friends. After, we left for her party. It started snowing on the way there. We had a great time and actually stayed out until 1:00am!!! (I'm sure everyone else stayed out much later than us.)

The next morning, we rushed downstairs before check out to play in the snow for a few minutes
before heading off to the airport.

Us southern girls decided we were not made to live up north and enjoy the winter, but we did have an awesome time. Hopefully, Alana will upload her pictures soon. (hint, hint!)