Still in Boston, we ventured out to explore the Copley area, we got to spend time with friends we have not seen enough of in years, walked down Newbury Street to the Boston Common, dodged people everywhere, so so many of them! We were seduced by the Fluevog shoe store and the Aveda store and the bookstore and the Thai food places, and we saw fancily dressed wedding attendees everywhere we turned.
Pedestrians and musicians on Newbury Street.
Amazing that Borders is gone. When I worked at independent bookstores, Borders seemed a bit like the evil empire to me (but less so than Barnes and Noble and Amazon) but they were a great place to go when visiting from SXM and being in bookstore withdrawal. Sigh. I have memories of the big Borders store opening in Union Square in San Francisco - I walked past it every day on the way to my job at Cody's Books (an excellent independent bookstore, sadly gone for good). When that Borders opened there was another chain store, maybe a Waldenbooks, a few blocks away - they went out of business almost immediately. Their employees filled their front display window with hundreds of copies of Sherwin Nuland's "How We Die". Books are at a strange stage - the internet, ebooks and personal publishing are changing everything. 
Some of Boston's buildings are just gorgeous.
First time I have ever seen this place in person. I watched every second of that season of Real World.
Nature: winning.
I never spent much time in this part of the city when I lived there, so it was nice to visit there on such a beautiful day.
One of the Swan Boats and its duck outriders.
Huh.
One of two weddings we saw on the Common that day.I would have gladly spent another week or two or three wandering around in Boston (as long as the weather held). Every time I go back I remember how great it is.
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