Showing posts with label Boston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boston. Show all posts

Sunday, September 27, 2026

Sunday, September 27: Nor’easter Starbucks & Amtrak

Hello boys and girls it’s another rainy day on the East Coast. Maryann and I are in Boston. We woke up around 10:30 AM checked out of the hotel. They didn’t charge us anything for leaving after 11 o’clock, which was cool. We then got ourselves ready to get going. Mary unfortunately lost her Hot Yoga Philadelphia ha. We then got an Uber to the Starbucks. The Uber driver was very nice. We got there around 12:30 and it’s now 3:30 PM. We looked at a lot of threads material just laughing and stuff and having a good time drinking multiple iced coffees. A nice Asian couple sat next were very nice. They allowed Mary to see if her charger is charged up and it just needed a joke to get working. The Phillies are actually leading the Rays 4–0 in the third inning. They scored more than one run for the first time in a week. So we’ll see if they hold that lead with that relief pitching. We’re supposed to catch 8 PM Amtrak train. Hopefully it won’t get delayed too much due to the torrential rainfall. So far, I have not gotten any alerts yet. Well, it’s now 5:29 PM. I did get one alert that the train is leaving at 8:01 PM instead of 8:00 PM so that’s OK. The Phillies did manage to beat Blue Jays 7–3 so we are in the playoffs as a wildcard. It’s been relief all around. Naturally folks are somewhat jaded, knowing that we have a history of bowing out the first round with a whimper with no back support. They actually went on the field with their playoff shirts. They should’ve just been said thank you very much about taking me and going in their locker rooms and reevaluate themselves. Anyway, we’ve been in Starbucks for the last 4 1/2 hours killing time.. we stated the Starbucks for another two hours met various people and watched the Phillies win 7 to 3 Diamondbacks lost anyway so that settled lotta commentary on social media about the whole Philly situation. We called Uber but Uber was at least $25 and and LIFT was $12 so we went with the LIFT obviously Guy picked us up and did a nice job and picking us up. We didn’t drove down to the Back Bay Amtrak station at train station was a hot mess. It was on under construction nowhere to sit and we had to work hard ass various people we could find a battery charger since my phone had died have a battery up so went into Amtrak and have a phone to show them. We finally did find the last covered outlet in the station. We then boarded around 810 and left around 812 or so. Mary went to sleep after Providence and I just looked at a bunch of TikTok and Threads, etc. It’s now 1:34 AM but it’s officially Monday and I’m listening to some loser snore really grossly but that’s the way it is. 

Saturday, September 26, 2026

Saturday, September 26: No Red Sox! Nor’easter instead🙄

Greetings from Boston, Massachusetts. After we found out last night that the Red Sox game scheduled for today was postponed and sent to Tampa Bay Florida to be played in a dome stadium. We had to do other plants for today. We first slept in for a while and then had some of our drinks we got up. We then walked to a Starbucks, which ended up being like a tiny little Starbucks with no seating. Then realized it was too gross to go there by walking an additional 18 minutes. Within decided to call left and get lifted to the real Starbucks with actual seating. This was located 1304 Commonwealth Avenue. We went there and the people at the front were really friendly and had fun with us. They gave us our name as go, Red Sox! Which I thought was hilarious. One of the sandwiches had a little bit of blonde hair in it and I whispered to one of the ladies and I got a second sandwich for free, which was obviously the good choice to do. So instead of making a scene and going on social media and decided to do it that way. We then hung out for a while and I caught up with my blog posting and Mary called her brother and caught up with him because he lived in Boston for a while in a while now we’re going to the Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum because we heard from several locals. It was a cool place with lots of trees and stuff inside the building. It’s now 3:26 PM and the northeaster is here. We had some really bad moments but right now it’s just drizzling all day in between the wind, gust and heavy rains.  Well, we went to the Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum and it was really fascinating stuff for sure. She had quite the collection Spanish art. She died in the late 1800s and husband is really rich and she set this place up in a really cool way. There is a a garden in the middle of bunch of trees, etc. it was three stories high. Signs were outside, saying tickets were sold out today. Mary told the woman she’s a docent at the Rosenbach Museum and she it with a whole was on this list. Well, we got in and they didn’t charge us any money. I didn’t realize it till after we had left the museum. That saved us 50 bucks which was pretty unreal. Well, the museum closed at 5 PM and we had to leave. It was a pretty cool place. We got a ride via Uber. A very nice woman who took us back to our place. We hung out for a little while and figured out what we would do with dinner we decided to order food from an Indian place right nearby called Punjab. It was right on one of the main streets that surround our place here. I first got some drinks from two of the nearby in the other direction then went back and got picked up the food. It wasn’t cheap, but it was very good. We fortunately got decent size plates from the hotel. We’re staying at cause the guy at the Punjab restaurant gave me these two tiny little plates and it would’ve been kind of silly to be eating out of those so we ate and we’re reading inside to get to the Phillies Tampa Bay rays game. It was a chance for Phillies are right their ship and win one but as of 9:25 PM at seven to nothing at the top of the fifth inning and they managed to end the fifth inning and yikes it’s really depressing and they’re showing all the Phillies fans just moping and a couple of guys put a bag over their heads that’s where people are starting to do this how bad it’s gotten. Oh my God, social media is gonna rip them like a new one. It’s just so sad. it’s one thing giving up seven runs, but we can’t score any so it could be three nothing as it was in the first inning with Erin Nola pitching one inning.