Week 14

Week 14
Boston............ and beyond
This week there has not been a lot of work. Matt and I had a lot of organizing to do so Vitale was good enough to allow us time to wrap everything up and sort out our own stuff. I have had major luggage issues. I was going to send everything home via postage but my lack of trust for government institutions had persuaded me to keep it with me.

I bought the largest suitcase I could find and I am going to store it in London and pick it up on the way home. I have had to throw out a few of my old clothes cause they just didn’t fit.

2 of my mates from Melbourne are traveling the world for 6 months and decided to start at Boston. My offer of free accommodation I think persuaded them. They arrived Monday from 3 days in Vegas and were a little the werse for wear. Daniel (Guns) and Alex (Zoonah) are their names. I play footy with Guns and meet Zoonah through him.

It has been a welcome site to have a few more aussies around. On Wednesday night Matt and I took them to hooters. We tried to eat the 50 piece wings special but just fell short. Not a bad effort though. Had a few beers then headed home.

Thursday night we also headed out for a few beers, we decided to try downtown Boston but the clubs were pretty ordinary on a Thursday night so we ended up at the pub in our building again.

Tonight (Friday night) we are going out after work with the guys from Vitale to have some going away drinks and say goodbye to everyone. I have to be at the airport by 11:00 am so It can’t be too big.... I have to finish packing in the morning.

I have had a great time in Boston but now I am off to South Beach in Miami for 5 days then Cancun in Mexico for a week. Looking forward to the sun. Although, the last week has been high teen’s and pure sunshine, really quite warm so as we leave the weather becomes really nice.... typical.

View of the airport.....My turn to leave Boston. Lookout out South Beach! 

Stains (Matt's nickname) is leaving............ About time, I have been trying to get rid of him for 3 months! 

The clock tower where our place is next to 

The Tobin Bridge and the Fleet Centre (Basketball & Hockey Stadiu)  

A big arse church 

Looking out the other way 

View of looking down from The Bunker Hill monument at Charlestown 

Vitale (Work) in charlestown 

Zoomed in view of the north end and financial district 

View of Boston from The Bunker Hill monument at Charlestown 

The boys just kept ordering for some reason 

We decided to take the wing challeng and ordered 50 chicken wings. Between the 3 of us we got through 43.
 

Zoonah enjoying some local beverages 

We decided to take the wing challeng and ordered 50 chicken wings. Between the 3 of us we got through 43. 

Me and our friend 

Guns and Zoonah with their friend 

Week 13

Week 13
Boston
Another week in the office and the pace was fairly slow. I have been working on the same client so I have got my daily routine worked out,
Out of bed at 8.00
Leave for work 8.45
Arrive at work 9.00
Lunch 12.30
Dinner at work 6.30
Arrive at home 7.00 pm.

Matt got back on Wednesday so I had to clean the place up. I had let it go a bit.
On Sat the old man came up from Connecticut and we just passed time, went up to the shops. We got home by about 4pm and cleaned the place up for our party.

We had decided to throw a going away party as it was our last full weekend in Boston. We had been advertising our party for a few weeks so we would get a good turn up and some of the boys here decided it was going to be a theme party, with the theme being Golf Pro’s and Tennis Ho’s.

Matt and I donned our finest golfing attire and after filling the fridge we started sucking back the booze. We cranked the music and by the time 11pm came around the we ended up with probably about 40 people in our apartment. There were some good outfits (from the boys, the girls left a little to be desired).

DJ Old fella and G Unit were cutting the beats on my itunes and the party was pumping when there was a knock at the door.......the concierge, with a disgusted look on his face. He said there had been complaints about the noise. I said, don’t worry mate, we are leaving in ten minutes and joined the party again. Half an hour later, he was back and I left Matt to deal with him. He somehow got rid of him but he was back in 10 minutes... filthy with us. He said he had called the police and they were coming.

Well this only served inspire the crowd and by around 12.30 all the beers had run out so we headed downstairs. Matt took one group to the place and walked in, Old Fella and I went to a bar across the street with some other people from the party as we had not been to this bar, Jose McIntyres. I wasn’t allowed in cause I didn’t have my passport and one of the other guys was too drunk so we then ventured across to the other side of the street to another bar called Coogan’s.

The bar closed about 2 and as I had not finished my beer I decided to take it with me so our crew returned to my place to find Matt and just about all the other guys back at our house. I thought we had got rid of these guys but apparently not.

Muethang had passed out in Matt’s bed, everyone took it in turns to do something stupid to him. Some Irish guy from PWC walked into our apartment to see what all the noise was and it ends up PWC had a few people on secondment in our building. By this time everyone was leaving and the Irish bloke invited us to his place where they were cooking up a massive feed. Matt, Jason and I went down to their place and ate all their food.
Jason passed in their lounge room, then we decided to head home.

Woke up with a head ache and the place was a mess. I have lost my keys, including the rental car keys....Great. Also, it appears the Irish guys took to Jason with a razor when he was asleep so he awoke to an unpleasant surprise. I must say I felt bad for him but watching Jason having his eyebrow drawn back on his face in Macy’s by a cosmetic girl was without a doubt the funniest moment of the weekend, perhaps the month.

We went to Fanueil Hall in the afternoon and inside the second floor. It was built in 1742 and extended around 1812, it is quite an amazing piece of work. There is a painting 30 foot by 16 foot of the debating of the declaration of independence. It took the artist 5 years to paint. I’ll try and get a photo and put it on the Blog. That’s about all for the week. Boston is starting to warm up with temperatures 15c and above forecast for our last week...........6 days to go an counting, Ah Miami!

The morning after 

A canadien secondee's from PWC apartment on level 3 in our building. 

Matt lapping up some attention. 

Hotshot having some "me time" on the couch 

Old fella telling Abi about Life at as a Green Machine Cog. 

The PP Crew. Myself, Jason and our American Visitor, Abi. 

X Marks the spot. Muethang proving he is extreme. 

No where to put the empties 

It's getting busy now