Today we caught a train to Boston and went on a walking tour there. We got up at 7.00am and quickly got dressed, had breakfast and drove to the train station. We caught a train that went for a one hour trip to Boston. On the way we looked out the window, chatted and played DS. When we got there we hopped off and briskly walked to the visitor's centre to find out where we should go. We decided not to do a walking tour with a guide but we did our own walking tour with dad as our guide. (ed: he used a guide book) First we went to the Boston Common, a forty four acre reserve. It was once bought from the native Indians by a British settler who lived there as a hermit for 5 years til some other settlers bought a part of it off him but left 44 acres to the hermit. Next we walked to a memorial of a white man on a horse leading heaps of black men into battle. It had happened in the Civil War when the Union side were in need of more troops and so they decided to bring black soldiers into the war.
Thirdly we walked into a graveyard with lots of famous dead people. On most of the tombs there was an engraving of a skull with wings which was done to remind the living that death is always near. <
After leaving the graveyard we had lunch sitting down in the warmest place we could find. Once we were all fed we walked to a concrete circle in the middle of the footpath. At that very spot in 1770 the 'Boston Massacre' took place. The Boston Massacre was an event where a mob of Patriots (Americans) stopped some British soldiers from going to their duties and by accident several of the soldiers opened fire and killed five men. It got the name the Boston Massacre when a man painted a painting of British soldiers lined up shooting a bunch of unarmed American people minding their own business. Lastly we walked to Paul Revere's house. Paul Revere was an American man who did a very famous horse ride to his fellow citizens to warn them that the British were coming.
Next we walked back to the train station and caught a train back to our RV. We played lots of UNO at the station and on the train. We got into our RV and drove back to our RV park. Once home, we had dinner, wrote some of our journals and went to bed.
Thirdly we walked into a graveyard with lots of famous dead people. On most of the tombs there was an engraving of a skull with wings which was done to remind the living that death is always near. <
After leaving the graveyard we had lunch sitting down in the warmest place we could find. Once we were all fed we walked to a concrete circle in the middle of the footpath. At that very spot in 1770 the 'Boston Massacre' took place. The Boston Massacre was an event where a mob of Patriots (Americans) stopped some British soldiers from going to their duties and by accident several of the soldiers opened fire and killed five men. It got the name the Boston Massacre when a man painted a painting of British soldiers lined up shooting a bunch of unarmed American people minding their own business. Lastly we walked to Paul Revere's house. Paul Revere was an American man who did a very famous horse ride to his fellow citizens to warn them that the British were coming. 
Next we walked back to the train station and caught a train back to our RV. We played lots of UNO at the station and on the train. We got into our RV and drove back to our RV park. Once home, we had dinner, wrote some of our journals and went to bed.
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