Boo’s Blog

This weekend we are doing our first official college tour – MIT. I know Ariel is a little on the young side to start the college tours, but if she is truely interested in MIT, I wanted her to see what she needed in order to get in. A couple of days ago Ron emailed that President Obama announced he was speaking on campus about green energy on the day we planned to tour campus. I was really worried our campus visit would be snarled with people, security, and schedule changes. In the middle of Thursday night at our hotel, we received a note that the president was attending a function in the hotel and security would be tighter.
We walked to campus and found an engineering class that Ariel was allowed to attend. She came out of class looking completely shell-shocked. She also took 4 pages of notes. After class we decided to head to the student center for some lunch and MIT goodies. We saw barricades set up along one street and wondered if Obama’s motorcade was planned to come down the street. We hung around, saw some quirky protesters, then realized something was going on at the next intersection. We walked down there right to the curb and realized the motorcade was coming down that street. We were just feet from Obama’s limo with no one in front of us when he passed. We could see him through the tinted windows waving at us. Way Cool.
Then on to shopping, lunch, MIT information session and campus tour.
After a brief rest at the hotel we went to Trinity Church to meet up with our friend Al. He and his daughter gave us a walking tour of Boston and took us to the Holocost Memorial. They have etched the identification numbers of all people killed during the Holocost into plexiglass sheets. This is incredibly sobering.
After walking part of the Freedom Trail, we went to an Italian restaurant for dinner (mmmm, gnocci). It was so nice to see Al and Cathy again and to meet their lovely daughter.