'The spirit of the red white and blue'

Well, here we are then. We're in Boston! It's raining. A lot. But other than that, it's jolly good! I thought I'd better write the first blog entry of this crazy trip, seeing as I didn't write at all in Japan... better start as I mean to go on! 

Soooo... Boston's pretty good so far. I'm very very tired. But the flight was ok, it was almost on time and we managed to negotiate the subway with our massive backpacks. Now we're in our 'guest house', which is actually more like a hotel in the room, but we're feeling the value with their 'best value room' so I have to share a bed with my stinky brother. Booo! It has complimentary coffee downstairs, though, which helps. I'm going to get my money's worth!

The street that we're staying on looks just like Edinburgh, with lots of tall terraced georgian style houses, but there are great big skyscrapers towering over them... like a cross between Edinburgh and Tokyo! Two of my favourite places! That's got to be good. Tomorrow we're going to do the Freedom Trail (it's a walking tour so let's hope it's not raining!), so we'll get to see some more of the city then. We had to go out and get something to eat just now, so we just wandered about 50 yards up the road, found the local pizza place and grabbed a slice! We felt so american, it was really good. I have to go to sleep now. 

Sorry if none of that made any sense! It's mostly the jet lag...

- Scarlett

Scarlett wrote something! Hurrah.

Yeah...so, as she says, we are in a misty and wet Massachusetts - according to the excitable weatherman on TV it's unseasonably rainy here. First impressions of the place were that it's not too dissimilar to pretty much any other city - I guess concrete and, in particular, airport terminals are quite universal - but we were beginning to get a sense of the character of the place by the time we reached our guest house, and we're looking forward to feeling the history on the Freedom Trail tomorrow.

On the subway on the way here there was a greying gentleman sporting a baseball cap emblazoned with the words 'Got Fun?', which served to confirm my preconceptions that Boston is pretty darn wacky. We could be in for one hell of a ride.

- Adam