day twenty - air conditioned museums and steamy sport

I should be under the table and screaming!! A whole post deleted by mistake and all because of my efforts to catch the best angle of Michael sleeping (I suppose I deserve it?)

Shucks this is irritating. Been up for ages giving you news and details of our trip to the museum, the temperature outside (and how to convert Fahrenheint to Celcius). I even went into details of the Cuban Crisis 1962 and Jackie Kennedy's outfit to the inaugural ball. Now I have lost my mojo a bit, so, in a nutshell, our day yesterday.

It was steamy hot and a good idea to spend the hottest two hours of the day in the coolness of the John F Kennedy Library and Museum. My kind of museum - got the facts and history stuff but all the little personal touches of videos of family holidays, John playing golf, the children swimming. His desk at the White House with not only the factual stuff but the little toys and trinkets he had on his desk. 

I have always been fascinated with Jackie and there were displays of her wardrobe and video interviews of her conducting a tour of the White House and how she was redecorating certain rooms. She was just so beautiful and stylish.

It was poignant to note that for all the wealth, wonderful homes and money that the Kenedy's had, they also had more tragedy than was fair for one family to be landed with. I left the museum feeling quite emotionally drained (but cool).

View of Boston across the water

From his desk

We had tickets to Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox play the Chicago White Sox. We found parking and made our way to a diner (nice word) to have burgers and beer before the game. 

Gardens on our walk to the stadium 

A pitcher of beer for $15 dollars was good value (four glasses)

My ticket (scary price)

Lights on

Come on Red Sox - They are not having their best season and lost 9-2 and all three in the series against Chicago White Sox.

It was a wonderful evening. The atmosphere at Fenway Park is amazing. Outside the stadium it is much like Newlands on match day. Vendors, programmes, drinks and memorabilia but they also have jugglers, magicians and mime artists. It was a pity the game was not more exciting but we did see a couple of home runs, fast action between the bases and some good hits. Pedro Martinez, a former player of theirs, was admitted (inducted) to the Hall of Fame so there was much celebration before the match and he and his family and previous team mates were all there. His number 45 was mounted on the wall next to the scoreboard. A boys choir sang the anthem (amazing) but The crowd did not sing Sweet Caroline (probably because they were loosing). They also do some booing when they don't like what is happening.

So this has now taken me double time, Day 20 yesterday and the number of HRT pills in my bubble pack tell me that we are three quarters of the way through our trip. This last part is whizzing by so perhaps I need to get up and moving while...