Fenway Times Two!

The last thing on the boys bucket list of Boston was of course to tour Fenway Stadium, home to the Boston Red Sox.  The stadium is about 3/4 of a mile from our room, so the easiest thing to do was to walk.  We headed out after lunch and Amber's nap.  We arrived at the ticket window about 1:30 only to find out the next open tour wasn't till 5pm.  Ooops!  In hind site we realized Chris and I should have bought tickets when we were out shopping.  So we went to the sovereign store, bought a few things and walked back to the hotel. 

Second time, we thought we had timed things perfectly arriving at 4:55 pm, we'd seen they spent some time in the store watching a movie before leaving to the stadium, so we should have been plenty early.  However as we arrived we saw large group of people walking off and they were locking up the store.  We asked the guy at the store if that was the 5pm tour and he said yes it always starts early because he has to close the store.  Once again, no one had felt the need to tell us at the ticket window and the tickets clearly said 5:00pm that the 5pm tour really began at 4:45pm.  Ugh! 

Thankfully, we'd seen the show when shopping earlier and the boys didn't really care about that and it was better in the end that we missed it, so we could keep little miss moving.

When we entered the stadium for the tour the guides clearly saw we had a stroller but once again no one felt the need to tell Chris he'd have to carry the stoller up and down lots of stairs, nor did they attempt to help, thankfully Chris is a big strong guy.  We just had to laugh, Bostonians I guess just either assume you know everything or just prefer to keep information that may be helpful to you to themselves.

That said, you should have seen the look on the boys faces as we entered the stadium.  They were all smiles.  Their little league team has been called the Red Sox for the last three seasons and they were thrilled to see in the home of the "Big Green Monster" or "Mahnsta" as our guide called it.

We got to tour all around, the visiting locker room, dug out, the press box, behind home plate, and sit in the Green Monster seats.  Our guide was full of entertaining stories about he history and the people behind Fenway.  It was a great tour!  My favorite part was getting this awesome family picture!