a weekend getaway was in order, and our flight was quicker than driving to the 'burbs. boston is fantastic - i love it.
our hotel is what was once the historic parker house hotel - the one the rolls are named after, the one where JFK held his bachelor party. and, our room overlooks what is the coolest graveyard i have ever seen in my life - the king's chapel burying ground. every grave stone in there looks like edward gorey designed it! and, since it's halloween weekend here, there were lots of ways to get in the mood. we went to the 3D version of the nightmare before christmas and caught it's the great pumpkin, charlie brown in our hotel room at night. and yes, there's been a lot of chowder.
but the real "reason" we came to boston was to get to the american textile history museum in lowell. and we got there; in driving rain, with forty mile an hour winds, and by walking a full hour in the wrong direction. it was still fanastic. lots of spinning wheels, distaffs, some very fancy niddy-noddies. it's a lovely place to visit. i've got to get better at my spinning.