Boston weekend

This weekend... we spend both days in Boston...

Sat 9th Jun 07

This week we had someone from the Singapore plant come visit... so we brought him to Boston... and he wanted to visit Harvard... so that's where we shall go....

I wouldn't say it was very interesting there.... cos it is nothing more than just a campus... and when u have no business with the school... there isn't a lot to do there... we merely walked around the campus... there seems to be some get together thingy going on in the school... there was a tentage set up... and you can see ppl who graduated from the school... all with badges showing which year they graduated from... and some of them are really old...

next we found the statue of the founder of Harvard... John Harvard... there were kids climbing up and down the statue... we had a hard time trying to get a pic of the statue with no one in there....

we concluded the trip with having dinner in Chinatown....

Sun 10th Jun 07

With the complimentary tickets our company provided... we took the chance to visit the New England Aquarium...

The aquarium consists of a huge center glass tank... with lots of sea creatures in there... the usual sharks... the various weird sea fishes... corals... sea turtles... wat's cool about it is... the walkway is a spiral around this huge tank... which is about 3 storeys high... so at different levels of the spiral... u can see diff things.... and u can follow the fishes as they swam away.... and the top of the tank is not covered... so u can actually look down into the huge tank... and the sea turtle happen to be circling there... taking breaths of air before diving down again...

at each level... there are diversions to adjacent exhibition halls where there are different showcases.... like jelly fishes... starfish... corals... penguins.... seals...

this time i decided to take minimum pics... because all aquariums are the same... and u would end up with many pics of diff fishes and creatures... and not forgetting how hard it is to get a good pic in aquariums... most of the time the light is dim for the animals' sake.. and flash just give u a lighted spot on the glass... so i took a couple of pics and decided to enjoy my day by looking at exhibits... seals show... penguins feeding... oh and not forgetting we were like school kids on an excursion... we got our penguin passport and went around looking for the stamps... din manage to find all though...

and last but not least... bought a really cute t-shirt... which describes me.... "sometimes crabby but always cute" Hahahahahaha......

It was a pretty interesting place to spend the day... though frens told me they find it boring and it took them about 1 hr plus before they decided to leave... but this place kept us occupied for at least 4 hrs.... easily entertained.... hahaha...

-jiahua