Boston

So, it was Friday morning, and we would be leaving the Norwegian Dawn early.  We had booked a short driving tour of Boston that would end at the airport.

We went to the theater to wait to be let off. A very nice staff person was making announcements, and telling us how things would work.  Well, at one point, an older man yelled out, "Can you speak up, we can't hear you."  OK, the feller has some hearing issues. 

Understandable.  He then went on, "Are you speaking English?  Speak English!"  A grumble was then heard through out the theater.  I heard someone by me say, "That man is just being rude now."  Someone in the back of the auditorium then yelled out, "We can hear you just fine!" to which EVERYONE clapped.  It was nice seeing the rude jerky man being shut down.  The staff person handled it well too, saying that English was not his first language but he was trying.

We were then allowed to go to the port station to get our luggage, which had been left outside of our rooms the night before.  We went to the black tag area... and could not find our luggage! 

We felt a bit of a panic!  Kim, and the staff who did announcements were helping.  Port staff kind of helped, but we were asked at least 20 times if another family member may have grabbed the luggage.  My wife went to look with a port person and ended up finding it in the green section.  Kim grabbed our largest bag and helped us as we ran to our tour bus. 

Anyway, as we got to our bus, I gave Kim a small tip for his help, which he declined.  I insisted though, and we thanked him.  He was our tour guide, and we bumped in to him on at the port at Sydney and at various other times.  He had been VERY helpful several times on the cruise.  We also had filled out a comment card about how helpful he had been before we left the ship!

So, we got onto our tour bus for our Boston tour.  This was nice, we quickly saw the Cheers entrance (I did not have enough time to get a good photo).  We saw Boston Marathon landmarks, and other things.  We DID NOT see Fenway park (I think I barely saw it from the plane).  We got to the airport and unloaded.


Again, like with some of the other tours booked through the ship, this was a short trip, kind of hitting the highlights.  We didn't have enough time to do any sightseeing in Boston on our own, so this was a nice way to get some of it in on a limited time budget.