This was Larry's sixth visit to Boston, all for fun. The previous five were in the 1980's and 1990's. It was Sherry's first visit to Boston. She had been wanting to go to Boston for decades.

Sherry's first impressions of Boston: friendly and helpful people, smelly mass transportation system, good history refresher lessons.

Whereas in Maine we had clear days with temperatures in the 60's and 70's, Boston gave us totally overcast days in the 50's with some spotty light rains. Oh well.

Since Larry had been to Boston several times, Sherry got to select the sites to see. Her list, in priority order, were:

• JFK Library -- interesting visit, ate lunch there
• USS Constitution -- got there with only 45 minutes left for it to be open and they had already closed the under-the-deck portion to Sherry's great disappointment
• Cheers -- only wanted to take a picture of the outside since the inside never was used for the television show
• Old State House -- did the inside tour which was only so-so to see
• King's Chapel -- despite our searching, we could not find it using our not-very-detailed map, since it was late in the day and we were tired, we skipped this one