February 02, 2008 - Trip to Boston and Williamstown, MA

Trip to Boston and Williamstown, MA
February 02, 2008 12:24:35 PM

     This company sponsored trip was to Massachusetts. My work site this time was in a suburb near Boston, and luckily the work wasn't that bad this time, long, but do-able. Also, I didn't have to go alone, one of the Victoria Canada guys was paired with me, so a lot less stress on that front as well. The work was for one of State Street Bank's data centers, it's a stock trading company, so the security was mad crazy, I'm talking Mission impossible / James Bond crazy, with facial scans, thumb scans, walking through bullet proof cylindrically revolving laser protected doors, etc, so unfortunately I can't talk too much about that place, nor do I have any pics from there.

     I left Nashville over the weekend so I could go up to Williamstown, Williams College, to meet Khine's Sister, Khin. Williamstown is about as far away as you can get from Boston, it's up in the upper left hand side of the state, almost a 3 hour drive. So this was the first time I've ever met any of Khine's relatives, so this was quite an experience. It was almost surreal, I mean, I haven't seen Khine in months, and here I am face to face with her sister, who has a good bit of liknesses. If there was anything hard about this portion of the trip, it would be that every time I look at Khin, it would constanlty remind me of Khine.
     Anyways, Khin and her b/f Drew were pretty cool, they were very welcoming, hospitable, and fun to talk with. We had many a good discussions including a bunch of little blurbs between me and Drew regarding all the similarites between Khin and Khine, those were pretty fun :-). The college it self was very nice. For a small college, it was actually very well rounded, they seem to go all out for the students with a wide variety of things to do.

     During the week, after my on-site work, Benoit (the guy accompanying me) and I went to Boston almost every night. We must have walked miles and miles. We went to all sorts of little places, pubs, bars, and restaurants, as well as some big places, The Boston Public Library, The Science Museum, etc. Oh yeah! We even found a replica of the Bar, Cheers, you know, from the 80s tv show? That was pretty cool, unfortunately no one knew my name, but the food was good and there was good live music.
     Man, Boston just has so much to see, and the really nice thing about this city was that there were no bad parts! Almost every other city I've been to had only small parts that were ok to walk around in at night, but Boston is different. It was very clean, there were hardly any homeless, and the subways are easy to figure out. And I almost forgot, the Sam Adams Beer is even better here! When I first had it from the tap, it was amazing! It was so bubbly and hoppy. I can't wait to get back to Boston!

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