{"id":750,"date":"2015-07-04T06:14:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T06:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/?p=750"},"modified":"2015-07-17T00:18:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T00:18:03","slug":"day-4-day-1-of-10-and-game-1-of-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/2015\/07\/04\/day-4-day-1-of-10-and-game-1-of-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 &#8211; Day 1 of 10 and Game 1 of 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day plans were to have breakfast at Midges and then off to Boston and then to Fenway park for the game at 7 pm.\u00a0 We had a wonderful breakfast at Midges house, then off to tour Boston for the day.\u00a0 The city was packed with tourist but we made our way around Boston commons and Beacon Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Of course we had to stop into Cheers for a quick visit.\u00a0 It was Great, we walked in and everybody knew our names.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0703151230.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"0703151230.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0703151230.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0703151229a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"0703151229a.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0703151229a.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then to lunch at the Green Dragon Tavern where Ben and I had our first Lobster Rolls.\u00a0 They were really good.\u00a0 We then went around to several other sites and decided to take a scenic tour bus around to view the major sites of the city.\u00a0 It was a Great tour and we finished up just in time to catch the train to Fenway park.\u00a0 We got to Fenway park and the line to get in was HUGE.\u00a0 They were really checking people carefully because of the heightened alert.\u00a0 So we still had an hour to kill so we decided to go and find a place for some refreshments and wait for the lines to go down.\u00a0 WELL we scored big time, it was like the Baseball gods were shining down on us.\u00a0 We stumbled upon a hole in the wall bar which was not crowded at all.\u00a0 We got a nice booth right in the middle of the room.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0703151748.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"0703151748.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0703151748.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They were playing some great old rock and roll and the best thing was that when we got done the entrance to Fenway park was right out the back of this bar &#8211; NO LINE &#8211; Unbelieveable.\u00a0 You will notice that I didnt mention the name of the bar.\u00a0 Thats because Midge asked me not to.\u00a0 We dont want the word to get around about this hole in the wall bar and then the next time we go it will be pack also.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0703151817.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"0703151817.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0703151817.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway after a couple of rounds and Midge taking a trivia quiz on a local news channel we finally walked right into the stadium.\u00a0 It was a GREAT game til the 10th inning when the Astros scored 4 runs in the top of the inning and people started to file out.\u00a0 The evening ended with Fireworks over fenway park and home.\u00a0 We finally got home around 1:30 AM Big Day.\u00a0 Tomorrow we say THANK YOU and\u00a0 goodbye to Midge and its off to New York City.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0703152257.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"0703152257.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0703152257.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-1555.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"1555.jpeg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-1555.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day plans were to have breakfast at Midges and then off to Boston and then to Fenway park for the game at 7 pm.\u00a0 We had a wonderful breakfast at Midges house, then off to tour Boston for the day.\u00a0 The city was packed with tourist but we made our way around Boston commons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}