Day 7: July 3, 2009

Today we ate breakfast at the hotel (Holiday Inn Tewksbury) before heading out to Lexington. We walked around the town and saw the Visitor's Center and Battlefield Green. We saw the house where Paul Revere was heading and the taverns that housed both the Patriot and British headquarters for the battle on April 19, 1775.

We drove over to Concord next. We stopped at the Concord Museum that had information about the battle that took place there as well as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson's work there. We went over to the Old North Bridge and walked across.

We ate lunch in town at Helen's before driving on to Boston. We took a trolley tour of the Freedom Trail and then walked from Fanieul Hall by Quincy Market, the Old State House, the Granary, the Irish Potato Famine Memorial, The Old Latin School, and the Mass. State House.

I walked back and got dad and the car at the parking garage (3 hours/$31) and we drove over and picked everyone else up at the Mass. 54th Regiment Memorial and headed over to the North End for dinner. We lucked up and found a parking place beside Paul Revere's house. Dad and I walked over to find Giacomo's Restaurant before everyone else did the walking. We found it and dad stayed in line while I went to tell everyone else where it was. We decided they should just stay where they were to wait, since I knew the line would move slowly. When I got back to dad, he hadn't moved. We decided to try to find someplace else, but everything was either really crowded, expensive, or both. We even tried to get pastry at Mike's, but the line there was out the door too. We ended up coming back to Tewksbury and eating a late dinner at Long Horn.