we've never been to boston in the fall.... until now.

when pat and leon planned a thanksgiving cruise to panama, blake and i decided that we would take our own trip over the thanksgiving weekend. we searched online and found inexpensive tickets to Boston. after that, our trip plans snowballed into a tour of New England including a trip into Canada.

we hit all six New England states on our trip and enjoyed a night in snowy Montreal.

we arrived in boston on thursday, thanksgiving day. we enjoyed a fancy thanksgiving dinner at a hyatt downtown. friday, we drove through maine (just the corner where we hit an outlet mall and had lunch) and new hampshire, and vermont (including a tour of the ben & jerry's factory - with a sample of "Peppermint Schtick" - yum!) and on to montreal.

it snowed over night, only a little dusting. very pretty. we toured through montreal on saturday, left town in the early evening, and got back to boston late. sunday, we rested and spent a little time downtown boston. monday, we drove to providence, RI and storrs, CT to see the University of Connecticut and back to boston. we left on tuesday morning - six states and one province in four days! whew! what a fun trip!

below are some pictures from our trip.

[p.s., here are the rest of our pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/tiffanielynnjohnson/201011Boston#]


these are the signs from the six states we visited. the bottom left shot is of the "Welcome to Massachusetts" sign. the times we reentered MA were at night (after long days of driving), this is all i could get from the car in the dark. :)

 we saw several college campuses including these four:

 
blake and tiffanie in montreal:

blake and tiffanie in boston harbor:

blake and tiffanie at the Ben & Jerry's ice cream factory in Waterbury, VT:

old montreal in the snow:

a view from our hotel room in montreal:

the canada-US border:

beautiful mountains in Vermont:

 blake at the Bill Rodgers running store in downtown boston: