Anthem of the Seas: New England and Canada

Bean Town After a sea day (complete with whistling winds as heard from our cabin), we pulled in to beautiful Boston, Massachusetts.  Grant had picked a bus tour of the city via the cruise lines, so we boarded our bus and headed from the pier. Here's the thing about bus tours: You're loaded onto a bus with 65 of your closest friends that you've never met before, driven to various locations wherein you're unloaded, chatted at for a bit, herded here and there for a bit, then loaded back on the bus. I know we saw buildings of interest.  They each had a story, which was recited by the guide, and they were important in their own way.  I have some pictures of these buildings, but I don't remember the story.  So, here are some pictures of buildings.  If I remember the story behind the pictures, I'll let you know.   Our first stop was to Copley Square where we took in the John Hancock Building and Trinity Church.  Trinity Church was undergo...

After finding a porter for our 2 bags, we made our way into the terminal at Cape Liberty and found the line for security, which didn't take long at all.  Once on the other side of that, we were confronted by a mass of humanity.  We were trying to find the end of the line, any line, and I handed my boarding documents to a lady in a blazer with a name tag.  Helen pointed us to the far left of the building where Line 1 was forming.  It had 2 people in it.  I'd forgotten we'd booked a junior suite which gave us priority boarding. The Junior Suite came with dinner in a place called Coast Kitchen.  This was a restaurant set aside for suite guests.  It has a different menu and the kitchen cooks to order, meaning the food is a bit fresher and hasn't been sitting under a heat lamp.  We ate there a couple of times and enjoyed it. This is the bathroom, with a tub on one side (that would't fill), and a shower on the other si...