Boston and other stories

Last saturday, Ram's brother and cousin drove up from NJ. We drove down to Boston for some sightseeing. Though I've been here for almost 5 months now, I never had visited Boston at leisure (still on my TODO list). We visited MIT - the pinnacle of Engineering institutes. Just being there, walking the corridors, is an overwhelming experience. Photos coming soon.

We planned on doing the Freedom Trail but it was almost 5pm by the time we got to Boston Common. So, we just walked down part of the trail - the old City Hall, Kings Chapel, Quincy Market. I am surely going to do the full trail sometime soon.

Things were going to plan till this point.

Later that day, we planned on having dinner at the Udupi Bhavan in Lowell. We reached just in time to be told that they closed for the day. Next door is a "Desi" store. Instead of going back home and cooking, we thought of buying some RTEs. The store lights switched off just as we reached the door :-(

So, we wandered down to a Chinese/Vietnamese/Cambodian/Thai (basically an all in one) place down the street and got some stuff "to go".

Just when we thought things could not go any worse, the power went off as soon as we got home. To top it off, the tofu "spring rolls" we ordered we just "raw" rolls, not fried.

Oh well, just the perks of living in a foreign country.