Monday, July 15, 2013

Sunday, July 14, 2013

July 4 celebration

We spent time together for the July 4th long weekend. On Thursday (7/4), we planned to take the Boston Duck tour together. We took the subway from Wolaston and stopped at Hynes Convention Center. We then walked to Prudential Center mall to get to the ticket booth. Unfortunately, all tickets were sold out for the day. We were a little disappointed and QuocNam wasn't happy at all. He asked to go to the Duck tour tomorrow. We convinced him to go on Saturday, since mom has to work on Friday. At the mean time, we took the T again and went to Quincy market for some festivity. Once in Quincy market, we walked around and enjoyed some freebies, giveway like: popsicles, soda tastes, smart bear fruits & nuts. We then watched street performers along Fenuil hall. Amazing that they were doing tumbling and juggling in such a hot weather. Dad also took picture with a living statue. QN wanted some tatoo, and he picked iron man. It costs $12 and the vendor said it would last for about 2 weeks, but sadly only a couple days, and it started to peel. QN also had some cartoon drawing of himself, and it came out nice in color. It was worth $20 spent for this. At the
end of the day, we all went home tired. On Saturday, dad book a tour online to avoid the sold out situation. We booked to Super Duck tour at 2pm instead, since this tour would spend more time in the water (boston harbor). There were some delays in the subway transit, and we showed up a littomele late again. Luckily, we were able to ask for a later trip at 3:30pm. The tour was packed with people, and it was hot sitting on the duck. We were shown around Boston North End, downtown and was told exciting history of different landmarks. Then we took the tour into the water of Boston Harbor. It was exciting see how the Duck went from land to water and made a plash. We stayed in the water for about 45min, and it was cooling off a little bit. Everyone was given a duck whistle and had a good time.