Finally!

Finally after weeks of planning, my vacation is here and I couldn’t be more excited. Tomorrow at this time I will be eating fresh seafood sitting in a city with a playoff-bound basketball team. (I haven’t given up complete hope for the Cavaliers but things are looking bleak). I will spend the next week trekking around Boston, Salem, Cambridge, Jamaica Plain and Cape Cod on an overdue vacation. I realized yesterday since I have started working full-time six years ago I am yet to take a real vacation which makes this even more exciting. Being a history and sports buff, this trip is going to be incredible. I can’t wait to go to Fenway Park but I am also so excited about going to Salem to see the Witch Trial Museum. And the ocean. I can’t wait to see the ocean! Pictures and entries to follow at some point during the week and after my trip.

Two Extremes

In the past two days, I have discovered what the most exciting thing and most stressful things are in my life. The most exciting thing is planning a week-long vacation on the East Coast. The most stressful thing is trying to make a deposit in an ATM machine before you run out of time. Last night I was stuck watching the screen of the ATM and trying to get an envelope and write my information on it in 34 seconds. I felt like I was on some European game show or something.

Boston Sports

What an incredible year for the City of Boston and its sports teams. First the Northeastern field hockey team captured its fourth-straight America East Championship with a 2-0 victory over cross-town rival Boston University, then former football coach and athletic director at Brandeis University Benny Friedman is elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame and finally lets not forget about what an incredible season Boston College is having as one of only two undefeated teams in college basketball. I believe all of this makes up for the Bruins taking the season off.

(As a side note in history, it will also probably be mentioned that this city won the super bowl, world series and then super bowl again in the span of one year.)