Spring Break and Boston

So, Spring Break starts on March 17 (St. Party's Day, as my friend Laura mistakenly called it). I have two separate groups of friends who want to go to New York City. I really love it there, but I don't know if I have the funding to go the city that never sleeps. While I love New York with all of my heart, I mean I live for the Met, Central Park, and the NAMoNH, I can go there at just about any time. I have family who lives there and I can stay with them. I will talk about NYC at a later date, however. For spring break this year, I want to go to Boston, MA.

Part of my problem with going to New York is that it'll never happen. My friends always make flaky plans and I don't see the point in investing my time in research for a trip that'll never happen. I was supposed to be going to New York last year, but instead ended up going to Savannah, Charleston, and Edisto Island. Not a bad alternative, but the friend who I was supposed to be going to New York with bailed on me. My parents had even been lovely enough to tell me that they'd pay for everything that I needed. And the trip still never happened. I hoping against hope that they'll do the same thing this spring break. And now I've chosen to attempt to go to Boston.

Ah, Boston.

I've really only started thinking about it extremely recently. I've always loved historic towns and cities. Hence my freakish love for Charleston and Savannah. But in a moment of weakness about two months ago, I started looking at transferring to colleges in Massachusetts and Connecticut. I really wanted to transfer to UMASS Amherst or Boston. And now I really want to go to Boston. I've always kind of thought about going there in the back of my mind, but now I suppose that I actually have the chance of going.

I'm about to start looking into taking a train or bus up there, fining a cheap hotel, looking at those cheesy tourist brochures, actually doing some of the activities, going to a museum or two, eating out at local hotspots, having a stranger buy me a drink, I don't know. The whole shebang! I guess that I don't have to actually look to go during spring break, really, I can go whenever, but I'm just excited to go out and do something that I've never done before. I'm praying that I'll get to go to Boston some time this spring. Spring is the perfect time to travel! I love it! I hope that it's at least going to be moderately warm so that I can look cute.

Thus starts my soon to be manic obsession with Boston, MA. I'll be looking at it's Wiki page, checking the weather, seeing where the locals frequent, setting up a fake college tour, seeing if I can get to Cape Cod or Martha's Vineyard. I'm just going to have the time of my life. I hope.