Let the Good Times Roll

It was good to see Micah again, when he showed up after our naps. After all, it had been quite a while since we had seen him. (He moved to Texas a while back and just moved to Connecticut before our trip.) We said our hellos and decided to head out for dinner, sightseeing and some drinks.

I forget where we had dinner, but we also did little sightseeing in Copley Square (see previous blog) and the Back Bay area on Newbury St. if I remember correctly. After all that, we decided to check out a lounge/bar that we saw in the Boston book Eric had. That is the picture you see. This is at the Top of the Hub on the 52nd floor of the Prudential Center, overlooking the city, which you can kind of see in the background of the picture. We were just going to go to the bar and have some drinks, but it was SRO at the bar and we didn't feel like waiting around or paying the $24 minimum for a table. There was also a jazz band playing which is what we wanted to check out. However, as you can tell, we opted to get a table. Out stomachs were already stuffed from dinner (you know, that over-expanded feeling) but I decided to order some Calamari so that I didn't have to spend $24 on drinks since I hardly ever drink. Micah and I managed to pace our way through half of it over the two hours or so while we were there. I am holding a Rum & Coke, which was pretty good.

Our biggest adventure was actually finding the entrance to the building. We walked the entire distance around it before we actually found an entrance, which is pretty weird considering it's 52 stories tall. However, we did find it (obviously) and I think we got there about 11:00 or so. As I mentioned, we were there about two hours and decided to get a taxi since we weren't sure we could catch the last T by 1:00am. So we did and we made it back and were in bed around 2:00. Amazingly we decided to set an alarm for 10:00 so we would be able to get through everything we had planned for the next day. Good thing we did. We were all ready to sleep right on through the 10:00 alarm when it went off, but I guess that's a good sign that is a fun night.