YES we completed our 35 dates...
YES we are still married...
YES I will blog about the 8 remaining dates. And YES I know I am waaaay behind schedule, so for that I apologize, but thanks for hanging in there with us and sharing the journey.
Date #28 was the ONLY date we went on in the month of October. And it was now so long ago I can't remember why. The California branch of our family tree was here for a week in the middle of the month, and we had our first ever sleep-over with both grandsons....best night ever! We also learned we would welcome another grandchild on the west coast in May, and we had an early first birthday party for grandson M. Other than that, our only excuse for not dating is that work (and soccer) and life probably got in the way.
For Date #28, we went "Down by the River, Down by the banks of the River Charles." Since our first grandson C was born, we have spent a lot of time on the Cambridge side of the river, walking our grandbaby and our grand-dog. Last spring Groupon was offering discount vouchers for a riverboat tour, and our son thought it would be a fun family outing, so we purchased four coupons and promptly forgot about them. Occasionally we would remember and try to coordinate our schedules during the summer, but there never seemed to be a good time.
The vouchers were set to expire October 15th so, rather than have them go to waste, we turned them into a last-minute date. While we were in line for our tickets, we gave the two remaining vouchers to a pair of women waiting in front of us. Turns out they weren't tourists either, just two women from Cambridge who had nothing better to do on a lovely autumn day. LOL.
The one-hour cruise left from the Cambridgeside Galleria Mall. Our tour narrator was a lovely lady from Dorchester with quite an accent.
No...not a Boston accent.
She was from Dorchester, England and had a lovely British lilt.
But really?!? There are no local born-and-bred college students they could have hired? I am sure that visiting tourists would much prefer to hear an authentic Bostonian like TH mangle the local language, rather than a proper Brit speaking the king's English.
Nonetheless, it was a beautiful and clear fall day, and the views of the Boston skyline were spectacular from the river.
We did learn a lot of fun facts from our tour guide (none of which I remember at the moment), but many we already knew (the Smoot measurements on Mass Av Bridge). I do remember that she messed up the poem that explains the weather light atop the old John Hancock building. She also made a disparaging remark about Charlestown, calling it one of the poorer parts of town. I guess she hasn't priced the real estate there lately! LOL
One of the highlights of the voyage was riding under the BU bridge, one of only three bridges in the world that spans water above a railroad bridge.
Did you know that Portland, Oregon and Lisbon, Portugal are the two only other places in the world where a boat can sail under a train, that's traveling under a car, that's driving under an airplane? That's a pretty astonishing piece of trivia when you think about it. And who actually did the research to confirm that?
This date was probably the most uneventful of all our dates so far. There was no alcohol or food involved; just the two of us floating down the river, pointing out shapes in the puffy clouds, enjoying the fresh air and sunshine...and each other. And sometimes, that's all you need!
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