Saturday evening in Boston. Today was a fantastic day for ducks. Unfortunately for Lisa and I, we’re human, so today’s inch of rainfall kind of sucked. Overall, we’ve been pretty lucky with the weather on this trip, so I guess a couple of days lost to rain at the end isn’t really something to complain about.We did try to get out and see the city today, with limited success. We did a bit of a university tour, hitting Harvard and MIT. Lisa was underwhelmed with the Harvard campus, and neither of us found MIT too interesting. Of course it’s good that they’re focusing on brain power rather that campus design, but in the case of MIT, I don’t know how anyone would look at the campus and say, hey, that’s where I want to study urban planning.

This evening we tried heading down to Tremont Street to find something to eat, but despite our umbrellas and rain gear we were both soaked within our first minutes walking around. We eventually gave up and retreated to our hotel and to room service. We have a few hours around town tomorrow before we have to fly out, so hopefully we’ll see something. Lisa did get enough of a taste of Boston to want to visit it again, so there will probably be another trip here in our future.

As far as Maine and Acadia, we got a lot of rain there, too, but it didn’t really have the negative affect the weather has had on Boston. We managed to get our tent set up during a brief break in the weather, and from there were able to manage the day with rain gear and well-timed car trips. Yesterday brought somewhat of an ill-advised at a whale-watching boat trip, which ate a lot of time, and mostly consisted of fog. And a log. (We did see a whale. Kind of.) Also, there were people puking everywhere, kind of like that one scene in Drop Dead Gorgeous, only without all the would-be glamour queens.

But I digress. Acadia was beautiful. Lisa really liked it, too, and we’ll have to make another visit if we ever get around to that Maine/Atlantic Provinces trip.

Well, it’s getting late, and we want to get to bed early so we can get an early start tomorrow. Tomorrow night it’s back to Minneapolis, and on Monday it’s back to work.

More later.