Museum Hopper

I spent a weekend in Boston which is where I am currently working.  I wanted to go to the Museum of Fine Arts since it is has paintings on my 1,001 paintings list.   I arrived around 2:30 pm to a line outside of the museum to get in.  It took over a half hour.  The reason we were given is that there were a number of events for the Persian new year.  I find it hard to believe that there was a big event starting 2 hours prior to the close of the museum...so, if that is the case, the line was carry over from earlier in the day.  Once I got up to the cash register, they did not even have all of them up and running! I saw the greatest hits.  They do have some beautiful art.  I did not understand though some of where they had queues. E.g. I wasn't allowed to get up close to these two paintings since they had some time capsule opening.  I don't understand why you would block off two of your top paintings. I did think their Egyptian art w...

i went up to boston and did the freedom trail with my friend from college. she had just moved up to boston and hadn't done the trail "officially" yet. we started at the beginning, of course, but did not do the whole trail. we ended near the north end. we stopped right before paul revere's house , but we did get to see later. i really enjoyed the trail. they have added a red brick line to follow throughout the city for the trail. it's like following the red brick line! at the start of the trail, they do give you the option (i don't know if it costs money) to follow a guided tour. we didn't go into the buildings, but merely followed the line. it was cool to see franklin and sam adam's grave as well as the state building. at times, it was a little crowded, but overall, i really enjoyed the tour! times visited: 1 time spent on trail: 2 hrs overall: A-