If you read my previous posts I mentioned how there is a pizza place on seriously every corner in Boston and they all say, "Best Pizza in Boston"... How on earth would you pick a pizza place after they all say the same thing?? Well I met up with Trey after he got off work and yes we caved and went to the "The Upper Crust Pizzeria" it was delicious! We got the BBQ chicken pizza, by far the best I've ever had... so if all the pizza places are as good as this one.. I better start running more.
This first week of Boston has been like the week of trial and error. I am having to step far out of my comfort zone and learn to adapt. For example: the first time I took the bus I stared at every single person that got on (culture shock).... at one time I think I was the only "white" girl on the bus. Now I don't stare at everyone just the interesting ones.
I have learned that when you don't have a car, a simple trip to the grocery store can take 3 hours.. especially if you miss your bus stop, or can't find it. You have no idea how many times I've said, "Excuse me can I ask you a question, I am lost"? In the past three days, and on top of that you have to carry all your groceries my arms were bleeding today from carrying the heavy bags all over downtown Boston.
I am sure none of you have ever dripped sweat while doing laundry? yeah well today I looked like I had just run wind sprints. The laundry room is in the basement of our apartment.. but in order to get there I have to to go out a door in our master bed room and down these rickety stairs all the way to laundry room with happens to be in the broiler room, which this morning was probably 90 degrees. After running up and down those stairs I almost didn't need to work out.
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This is the rickety stair case |
The best part of the day was discovering I have a pond/lake/park right by my house that has a running trail around the whole thing. There are lots of people, birds, obese squirrels, and turtles.. today I almost smashed a baby turtle.. he was was far from the lake and I think this old man could see the look of distress on my face and he picked him up and put him back in the water.
I am really starting to love Boston and the big city, but miss my husband during the day. Trey works so hard and is gone from 8:15 till about 6-7.
I think he's pretty happy now though..... he's playing Fifa just in case you couldn't tell