Fenway Park

Day 20:  Slow Day at the Pubs

We arrived at Fenway Park via the subway system about 10:15 to buy our ticket for our tour only to find that the 11:00 tour was sold out.  We bought tickets for the 12:00 tour and then went for coffee and pastry.  I can now say I have been to Fenway Park and have sat in a seat at the top of the Green Monster.  There is limited seating atop the green monster and you have to enter a lottery to get a chance to buy up to four seats for one game only.  If you are lucky and decide to buy four seats it will cost you $620.


Green Monster



Red seat

 We saw the red colored seat where some lucky or unlucky fan was dozing and was hit in the head by the longest home run ball ever hit in Fenway:  502 feet.  It was hit by none other than Ted Williams who on a good day weighed 190 lbs.  From Fenway we found our way to Harvard Square where a huge Octoberfest street fair was buzzing.  I would guess there were thousands of revelers there.  We came to Harvard to go to the Harvard Natural History Museum.  I thought the exibition of color was very informative as well as the glass flower exibition as well as the Peabody exibitions on indigenous peoples of the Americas as well as..... As you can tell, it was quite overwhelming. It was getting late in the day and we had not found our way into a pub.  To remedy that, we visited The Green Dragon in downtown Boston where our forefathers came up with their schemes to outsmart the British and create a new nation.  There is a pub crawl that visits four of these very old pubs. So far we have managed to visit two of them which makes tomorrow a busy pub day if we want to hit all four before we leave. We are comfortable with the subway system and will ride it tomorrow for our last day here. Hope you all are enjoying fall. We are looking forward to meeting up with Lesley in a week.