For my birthday a week or two ago Seth was nice enough to take the afternoon off (I skipped my later class) and we took my first trip downtown. Along the way we stopped at a humongous bookstore/warehouse thing in Newtown (the New England Mobile Book Fair). I didn't make it past the gigantic cookbook section, but from what I saw of the rest of the store--lots and lots of inexpensive books--I was totally floored. I tricked Seth into buying two books for me as 'birthday presents'.
We parked in Brighton and visited Seth's sister and nephew. Chrissy and Erik were sweet and surprised us with a home-made card and a little cake--so cute! Seth and I then took the T downtown and we walked around Government Center, Quincy Market, the pier, and cut back through the Italian North End. Around this area we passed near parts of the 3 mile long Freedom Trail--which I am dying to walk some afternoon--and had a quick glimpse of Paul Revere's house, which looked like it was turned into a gift shop (unless I wasn't looking at the right building...).
Quincy Market
Quincy Market
Paul Revere lit the lamps of this church to warn of the oncoming British troopsWe stopped for dinner at one of the many fantastic Italian restaurants, Antico Forno, where we had some of the best pasta I think I've ever had. You know how when you go into an Italian place, order pasta, and it comes out in a colossal plate and it is impossible to even make a dent in it? Well, this was no exception, except that we both ate our entire plates, plus two baskets of bread. After skimping on lunch we were that hungry, and it was that good. For dessert we crammed in one of the famous Mike's Pastry cannolis and washed it down with Dunkin' Donuts coffee. A delicious ending to the day.
Dinner in the North End
Mike's Pastry, busy even on a Wednesday night
Our 'goodies' at the end of the day
A melding of two pastry kings: Mike's and Dunkin' Donuts
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