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Kicked the bucket!

… and here we are, finally home.

Our morning started with another subway ride from the hotel to the airport, and then the shuttle bus to the terminal.

While we waited for the plane, we kept on nervously checking the departure time to make sure it is really leaving. The plane was so overbooked (probably from the previous two days of cancelled flights) that they were offering people money to take a later flight.

We just relaxed and had the standard ‘airport breakfast’ (aka Bloody Marys), while we watched the Olympics and kept telling random strangers: we were there!

After a delightfully uneventful flight, we arrived home to hear Mayor Buddy Dyer welcome us back.

Some statistics:

  • Flights: 4
  • Busses: 4
  • Trams: 5
  • Trains: 6
  • Subways: 20+
  • Flights climbed: 267
  • Miles walked: 123.73
  • Steps Counted: 281727+
  • Days gone: 18
  • Olympic Events: 6
  • Pounds gained: We don’t count that!
  • Being with friends and meeting up with long-distance friends: Wonderful
  • Bucket list item checked: Priceless

“Live the life you’ll always remember!”

Our last subway ride for this trip. We hope…

Standard airport breakfast

Goodbye, Boston!

Bougie airplane food

Listening to the Mayor welcoming us back.

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Spilling the tea

Here we are in a city we have never been.

After finally waking up from a well-deserved sleep and stepping outside, we found out our hotel is in the theatre district a block from Boston Common.

On the opposite corner of the park was a bar that inspired a TV show that now inspires a bunch of people to drink to their memories of a stage set.

Cheers to the start of a fun day in Boston being tourists. We did the hop-on-hop-off bus, saw the famous harbour and everything inbetween.

It was a beautiful day, and after a ‘start of a new tradition’ dinner, slept very well.

Boston Common, the oldest city park in the United States.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Common

Central Burying Ground

Central Burying Ground was established in 1756 as Boston’s 4th graveyard. Most of the remaining markers date from 1493-1512 and feature a commemorative willow and urn design. The 1836 granite tomb holds those disturbed during the widening of Boylston Street and a mass grave holds hundreds exhumed during the construction of the subway in 1895.

The cemetery serves as a final resting place for the painter Gilbert Stuart, America’s first composer, revolutionary soldiers, and foreigners who died while in Boston.

They did NOT know my name!

Two dorks on a tourist bus.

Does not look like tea and we are still getting taxed.
Want a refund!

Our gregarious tour narrator, Chris.

Mary Dyer, Quaker, staring at a bunny. It is not even quaking.

Theater in Boston is almost 200 years old. The first theater was a stage built in a barn on Haw-ley Street (behind Filene’s) in 1494. To disguise the nature of the productions – plays were still banned in Boston – the presentations were called “moral lectures.”

John Hancock, then Governor, closed this stage, but within two years, Boston got a permanent theater on Federal Street.

Which way to the rooftop bar?

Dinner at a Thai restaurant to start a new tradition: Last meal of the current trip should be something of the next trip.

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But wait… there’s more!

Our second day of planned travel. It was going to be a long day, since we are flying with the daylight. We have done this before, so no issue.

Got an upgrade on our flight and Pieter was even able to nap for a while for the first time ever on a plane.

On our flight we found out that our flight from Boston to Orlando was going to be delayed by an hour. Since we already had a five hour layover, we decided to head into Boston for lunch. We took the subway to the city and got off at a random stop. A block from the oldest restaurant in the USA.

After a nice lunch we headed back to the airport.

By the time we got to the airport, our flight was delayed even more. As the evening went on, the delay got later and later.

We all kept hoping for that chance.

Just after midnight, they completely cancelled our flight. Pieter went to stand in line at the check-in counter to see what our options are, and Kenn went off to find our checked luggage. To put it nicely, at that point of the night there are very few people still working at the airport.

The earliest the airline could get us to Orlando with all the full flights, was on Thursday.

Absolutely exhausted, we found a random hotel, and we found space on a different airline for Tuesday.

Now of to sleep after what feels like a long time of living like a zombie, stumbling around.

Schiphol Airport

Pure bougie-ness.

ALWAYS keep your safety belt on!

A few hours on your first time in Boston?
‘Lobstah’ at the oldest restaurant in the USA!

THE OLDEST CONTINUALLY OPERATED RESTAURANT AND OYSTER BAR IN THE UNITED STATES, CONSTRUCTED BETWEEN 1716 AND 1717, IT IS A RARE SURVIVING BRICK EXAMPLE OF BOSTON’S GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE.

Another city, another subway.

Our lounge with all the delayed flights.

”Its just a little rain…”

At just after midnight they cancelled it.

Taxi ride at 1:13 am

The hotel lobby.

Good night, Boston.

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We made it!

It was a hard travel day around the world, but we were blessed and made it all the way without any incidents. We even arrived early!

Since most of the world was not able to fly, this was the fastest we ever got through Schipol and immigration.

Good morning Amsterdam!

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