OUR BOSTON EXPERIENCE

Our traveling buddies: Roxanne in front, then Mama Burgos, Erik and Syliva
The Beautiful Boston Temple
One of the 48 cannons that were on the USS Constitution.
"One if by land, two if by sea". The Old North Church where Paul Revere held up the lanterns to warn the patriots, "The British are coming".
The entrance of the Temple

Faneuil Hall. It is still used for town meetings. The inside reminded me of the tabernacle, probably because of the balcony on the 2nd floor. I loved it.
"Cheers" where the TV show was filmed.
Gotta check out the "Harley" store.

We were blessed with the opportunity to attend the Boston Temple with 4 members of our little branch here in Monticello. Knowing we would probably never have this opportunity to see Boston, we left early Thursday evening. We plugged the hotel address in our GPS and away we went. To our surprise, we toured thru Connecticut all along the coast, skipped thru Rhode Island and then into Massachusettes. The weather was beautiful for the drive. Too bad it gets dark so early, as I would have loved to see the countryside during the day light. This was suppose to be a surprise birthday trip for Doug, but he learned of it when trying to get permission to go out of our area.

Friday we went on line to find a Harley Davidson shop. Found one right in the center of the old part of Boston. Right in the middle of all the History sites in Quincey Market. Best decision was to park the car in parking garage and walk. I really enjoyed Faneuil Hall and the USS Constitution. We took a Trolley City Tour. Saw all the sights, too cold to get off of the trolley for every stop. We had a great tour guide and learned all about much of the History. At dark we decided to drive by the temple and see the lights. We took a stole around the grounds and took a few pictures. Excited for tomorrow when we will go inside.

The Burgos family drove thru a terrible snow storm for a couple of hours Friday night. They stayed until Sylia and Erik got off work, then picked up "mama Burgos" and Roxann who lives in Pine Bush. We are about 250 miles away from Boston. The snow storm delayed them a couple of hours and they arrived at the hotel around 1:30 am.

We let them sleep till about 9:00 am. We learned of a few complications they were experiencing. Mama Burgos had been having sharp pain on her left side in her ribs. Silvia had broken out with a terrible rash all over her body. But they were very determined to go to the temple. Nothing was going to stop them. So at their request, Doug and Erik gave them priesthood blessings to help them through out the day. We enjoyed breakfast at IHOP with them and then off to the temple for a session, sealings and dinner. The temple has many wonderful memories for them as it is where they all received their endowments and where Sylvia and Erik were sealed. We were blessed with witnessing a sister being sealed to her parents and younger brother, all were deceased except for the sister. She was very excited, grateful and emotional. The sealer took some time to tell us a bit about the temple and when he was called as a sealer by president Hunter. A couple and their son who just received his endowment asked to join us. Their last name is Perks, we learned that Brother Perks served a mission with a good friend of ours, Kevin Ence. Their son has his mission call and will be going to Italy. After the session and waiting in the lobby, we ran into the Perks again. It was so fun hearing about his mission experiences with Kevin. How wonderful the bonds of love and friendship that still exist between mission companions after about 30 years.

We had a wonderful time. How we love the temple. Boston is a fun place to visit. Thanks to Mama Burgos, Roxanne Burgos Estrada, Sylvia and Erik Roberts for inviting us to go along and celebrate Dougs belated birthday. XOXOXOX