Michael and I woke up at 5 am. Breakfast didn't start until 6.30 so we started with a nice hot bath in the tub. Slowly, the rest of the family returned to the living.
Breakfast turned out to be a very pleasant surprise with everything from scrambled eggs, fresh milk to bake-your-own Belgian waffles. We all loved it.
Michael with a breakfast waffle.
We set out early for Boston, taking the Mass. Turnpike into the city. We started by visiting our old place in Watertown. It was fun to see where we lived 16 years ago and show it to the kids. It seemed like another life.
The family in front of our old home.
Then we drove along Mt. Auburn St. to Mt. Auburn cemetery. We drove into the cemetery-arboretum hybrid park and parked the car at the side of one of the little roads. The place is amazing. There are so many different grave stones and monuments and they look great in the beautiful setting of the park. It is such a brilliant idea to create a graveyard in a park setting where people actually enjoy coming.
Mt. Auburn Cemetary and Boston in the background (from the tower in cemetery).
From Mt. Auburn cemetery we drove into Cambridge. We parked in Albany St. and walked passed my old lab. We saw a new giant building towards Vassar St. It looked like something built of Lego bricks. I seemed to remember that it was an MIT student housing building. We passed by the MIT main building, Rogers building, and then went on to Killian Court and marveled at the giant dome. Entering the building and passing through the Infinite Corridor, we saw a lot of displays of laboratory work. In search of lunch and the Chinese food trucks we went on to Kendall Sq. where we saw some very interesting architecture, buildings looking like something from a comics book with very odd angles. It looked great. But we didn't find the food trucks, so we decided to go back to Mass. Ave. and have some greasy pizza at "Chicago Pizza", the place where Sam eats at the start of "The third transformation". The area around Mass. Ave had become a lot nicer: no pot holes in the asphalt and the streets looked very clean. Also, the recycle station in Albany St. was gone and we saw no homeless people. This end of Cambridge seemed to have improved a lot.
Hiroko, Philip, and Michael in front of some of the interesting comic-book architecture in Kendall Sq.
At the hotel we went to get the free dinner. It was actually quite good - some stuffed pasta with a salad and sodas. Not bad for a free meal!
After dinner, Hiroko, Michael and I went down to the pool area. A group of unruly English kids with their dad rushed into the pool room when I was just about leave and go to the gym. When I came back from the gym, of course there had been some problems with the group. The English dad had washed his hair straight into the pool and the kids had of course done the same! How disgusting! The kids had jumped wildly into the pool, making it impossible for Michael and Hiroko to swim there, so Hiroko had gone straight to the lobby to complain.
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