My Journey North - Leg 1: Boston and Wellesley

I planned a three part trip up north.  It was for 15 days.  I think it was the first time in my life that I was away for that long for a vacation / trip.  I left early on a Wednesday morning to fly to Boston where I would meet Gina at the airport.  She flew in from Orlando.  We were getting her moved into her dorm room at Wellesley for her senior year.  Since the dorms were not open until Saturday, we had a few days to hang out.  

On Thursday, we headed over to the Riverside Station to take the 'T' into Boston.  We walked around Quincy Market for a while before heading over to the North End for lunch.  We walked around, checking out all the Italian restaurants.  And we stopped into the Old North Church.

As we were walking by the Dolce Vita restaurant, this older gentleman engaged us in conversation.  He was telling us how good the food was here and how they would make us anything we wanted.  There were so many places to eat, we figured we couldn't go wrong, so we let him lead us in.  And the food was good!  The owner was there, talking to some of the regulars.  There was a group of four people sitting in the front of the dining room near the wide open windowed doors.  Reminded us of the group of oldsters in the 'Return To Me' movie.  After enjoying our meal, we headed over to Mike's to get some cannoli.  We took them over to this open park area to enjoy them in the warm sunny day.

We hung around and did some shopping the rest of the time up to Saturday.  On Saturday morning we headed over to Wellesley to begin the fun job of moving four heavy boxes from the basement storeroom, across the courtyard and into another wing.  Luckily, there was an elevator to take us up to the fourth floor.  Then all the way down to the other end.  As we were carrying the last heavy box down the hallway, a dad who was helping his daughter moved in, asked us if we wanted to use the dolly he had.  Great timing!

All in all, it was fun setting up the room.  Gina's roomie Ellen arrived a couple hours after we did.  She and Gina share a suite.  We headed down to the dining hall for dinner before I started out for Albany for the second leg of my journey.

To be continued . . .