Hello Boston!

Well, Paul and I have safely arrived in Boston, and so I suppose that our adventure has begun. We left Chicago Friday night and we managed to miss all the Chicago traffic by cutting down through the neighborhood to the Skyway! In pure Paul & Emily style, we stopped for dinner at the Bell's Brewery in Kalamazoo, MI. They have a cute cafe and there was live music. I am happy to report that the Bell's Brewery Cafe is both delicious and cheap! The beers were only $4 a pint and the food was like $7 or $8 too. It was an interesting mix of people - young college types and adult types.

When we kept driving after dinner it started absolutely pouring rain. Paired with the fact that there seems to be nothing in Michigan, the darkness was somewhat terrifying. Eventually it dropped off a bit and was easier to drive, and we ended up on Friday night in Sarnia, Ontario (which Paul insists on calling Narnia).

Yesterday we woke up and drove through Ontario, which, turns out, looks a lot like Michigan until we got over to the Eastern side, where we could see Lake Ontario as we drove along. We stopped in Niagara Falls on the Canadian side, which, like my Mom said, was interesting for about 10 minutes. Actually, we were interested for about 45 minutes before we headed on to Buffalo.

After Buffalo, it started raining again, and between Syracuse and Western MA it was an absolute downpour again. I think that upstate New York is probably really pretty, but we couldn't see much because of the rain. We'll have to actually look at it on the way back!

We got into Boston about 11:30 last night and today our plan is to relax, go out for Brunch, and perhaps start packing. While in Boston we've got plans to see old friends (from Olaf) and new ones (from BU) so I'll keep everyone updated on our adventures! We're heading back toward Chicago next weekend.