We were all pretty excited and relaxed at the beginning of the journey, but after 10 hours of flying, going through American immigration and a resulting missed flight, we were rather dead.
After we'd checked into our hotel, we fell into bed and were asleep immediately.
Jet lag is a such a pain. But we started our day early (to say the least) and decided to go to town and visit a bunch of places that had some sort of "historic" significance to us.
That included the old condominium we used to live in:
Then moved onto Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Although you may not think that a cemetery is a great place to visit on holiday, Mt. Auburn is actually really lovely, due to the fact that it's a garden cemetery.
Bigelow, who founded the cemetery
Every street running through the cemetery had a lovely plant name
A Celtic cross gravestone
Tombs?
Also - handsome couple in front of the lake in the cemetery
After that we drove to the MIT lab that dad used to work at:
And after that we went on a little walk past the MIT main building and to a pizza place dad used to go to in his younger days.
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