Our Trip to Boston, Massachusetts

Today despite the rain we decided to drive into to Boston which on a good day is a little insane. I thought about taking the train in and then using the subway to get around but instead decided to just take the car and hope for a parking spot. Did I mention it was raining? I even saw one small piece of lightening off to the East while driving. I did my best rainy day tour of Boston for Cole and Jacquelyn. They've been to Boston a few times but never had the rainy day tour. The most important thing for the rainy day Boston tour is lots of traffic and we found it quite easily. Unlike my whole crazed drive into Manhattan I actually know my way around Boston or at least did before they screwed all the roads up. I took them down Storrow Drive and showed them my first apartment on Brighton Ave, I brought them to Fenway Park, Government Center, North Station, the Custom House, Quincy Market, the Back Bay and the Prudential Center. We ate Chowder in the Market (said with a very Boston accent) and had Indian Puding at Durgan Park. I found a parking spot in the most perfect place and even had an umbrella to use. Jacquelyn found out why they try to face the umbrella into the wind (so it won't flip inside out) . . . she was very concerned when the umbrella started acting up.


We had a great day and even enjoyed the rain that never stopped even for a minute. We decided to leave Boston at 4:30 just when the traffic starts getting bad and head back up to New Hampshire to my parents house. This would have been an enjoyable drive in traffic going 20 mph in the pouring rain . . . that is until the "you may have a flat tire" light came on??!!? I'm feeling so confident that the new battery is in and the car won't be dead and here I am on the expressway going North in bumper to bumper (Bostonians pronounce as bumpa to bumpa) with a car who thinks she has a flat tire! . . . did I mention it was raining? Here I am writing this blog and all the ads they post are white water rafting ads . . . I think it might help me out if Google could possibly post a few ads of places that might be able to service my Toyota from time to time . . . new battery new tires? something besides the best places to go white water rafting. (just a suggestion)
Well I didn't have a flat tire. It's possible it's a faulty light . . . again Toyota service station would be nice. But it's also quite possible that I have a nail in my damn tire and it's leaking air and I wasn't about to find it in the pouring rain or after I got back to my parents house. Time will tell in the morning. I think I've had 4 flat tires since I've had this car . . . and it will be two years in October.