Back to Thrift Stores!

Sorry, I have recently deserted my main blog theme with all this traveling...Yesterday we were traveling to Costco in Avon,Mass. and there just happened to be a Salvation Army thrift store nearby.  Wow,wished I lived in Mass. ,the prices were phenomenal.I wish I had brought my camera to validate my finds. I really couldn't buy anything as my limited luggage space needs to be reserved for very special things.
.The following listing is the evidence of the great deals available here.
 Hurry over all you Bostonians..even my daughter (usually a non thrift store fan) got inspired.
an early 20's high chair...$15.00
a beautiful intact pump organ with a gorgeous mantel...$159.00..I paid $450.00 for mine in Los Angeles
a player piano ...$199.00
4 beautiful old oak dining chairs...$4.99 each
multple collectible and antique dishes at$.99 each
In our thrift stores in L.A. there is nothing for $.99..the lowest price you can find is $1.99 but if anything looks the least bit valuable,it jumps to $7.99.
So get out there guys, the bargains still abound!!!

We Went on the Duck Tour...Quack...Quack

Ted was our beast of burden,3kids at once

and this was our duck

one of the sister ducks. They are amphibious ,Land and sea. It was great fun but I was unable to take many pictures

my one picture,Longfellow Bridge

Freedom Walk, or Better Put ,Freedom Crawl



 



 

If this man was able to ride his horse around to warn the colonists with a bell in one hand and a gun in the other, he deserves a statue !

The Commons, a fantabulous park established by the Puritans

Ducks on the Duck Pond

more ducks

Boston's architecture hasn't strayed far from the Enlish influence

Mass. state capitol,note gold leaf dome, beautiful

Though it's not readily evident,my youngest grandchild is taking a snack break

The King wanted to build an Anglican Church in Boston but the Puritans wouldn't allow it so he built this one in a cemetary

first free school open to all

oldest book store in Boston,now a Chipotle.You can see the wavy old glass still in the windows

hail,hail, the gangs all here



tea party organized here ,Old South Meeting House



Faneuil Hall

Mime in front of Sam Adam's statue

Beautiful flute music from the Andes

This is not a pigeon on Sam Adam's statue

This mime is so good,she isn't even shivering.

First Market in Boston now filled with restaurants and shops

Demonstation of yankee ingenuity, you wouldn't believe the drum sounds coming out of these plastic buckets.

Old restaurant that has always been under the same management

oldest part od Boston

more of old Boston

Old Boston

Boston has the best Little Italy I have ever seen!

famous Italian Bakery

Yummy

unusual sign nearby  Mike's Pastry

Wow! This place is packed to the brim. Hope my son-in-law comes out with all his limbs intact.

Here that brave man comes,no limbs missing and bearing luscious trasures  for all. 

didn't realize the pastry I ordered was enough for an army 

contemplating  her indulgence

down it goes!

Paul Revere"s back yard

Now can I have a cupcake.

Paul Revere's home

St. Stephan's Church

Old North Church

Old North Church

Old North Chuch

Old North Church from where message was given to patriots that the British were going to Lexington

I guess this must have been the servant's entrance to the brick front mantions. These dot the streets and are very diminuitive in size.

La Famiglia where we ate the night before. The entre' could feed a whole platoon.



view from Daughter and son-in-laws window in the Sheraton.Domed building on left is MIT



Another view from their room



Dinner at Legal Sea Food in the Prudential Mall ,meeting up with 2 of daughters classmates who are doing post doctoral studies in Boston



chopino anyone?

Son-in-law



and another



friend and husband

daughter and friends

the patriarch and matriarch

Hard to say good by

I'm very proud of my husband and myself for finishing most of the famed Freedom Walk  in spite of   inhibiting our much younger family's progress. After being highly praised for great accomplishment by our son in law,I couldn't resist exclaiming with indignation,"we're not ready for the grave yet,"even though I surely felt close to it.