22nd Anniversary Midnight Sun Trip 2016: Boston, Mass.

July 18

I can’t believe I got up early enough to take this picture. It is sunRISE, not a sunset. That doesn’t happen often. The reason is that sunrises are not usually this amazing. (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it)

It is over 90 degrees outside and humid. We took a 2 hour trolley ride around the historical city. It is a hop on/off trolley, but we stayed on. The sun was scalding. You note I said “was”. Right now, 5pm it is drizzling and thundering and there is a bit of wind. Right now it is great outside. Problem is the on/off bus stopped running at 5. We do not leave port until 10:30 tonight.
So right now we are not sure what we are going to do. We may go on the pool deck and watch a “movie under the stars”. This has been available on this ship, not on the first one. It has been too cold until today to even try to watch. Also, the movie starts either at 5 pm, when it is very light out, or 7 pm when we are still at dinner. So today, since most of the passengers are ashore, they have open seating for dinner. Normally there are two seatings, one at 5:30 and one at 7:45. So, today we can go to dinner whenever we want, so we may see the movie, if it is not raining too hard. Note: it is raining too hard, so we left the movie.
Of course there is a show. Tonight it is a production show, meaning the 2 singers and 10 dancers put on a show. Last night we saw 2 shows. One was a floutist, you know someone who plays a flout, I mean a flute. Then we saw a juggler who makes Robin Williams chatter sound like slow motion. And, yeah, he juggled, too. (I think we saw these two on some other cruise we were on) We enjoyed them both. Today's show was not good, so we left. Sounds like we are getting ready to go home….
PS we are getting tired. It seems we cannot go ashore for more than 2 hours without being wiped out. That includes just riding on a trolley.
So now we have some pictures of Boston to show you.