Day 6 Fenway Park (July 2)

We went to Fenway Park today and got a tour of the park. I really loved it. The tour of Fenway was awesome. I learned a lot of new things (that I couldn't tell you anymore), but I do have a new respect for Fenway Park and Red Sox fans. It was so fun to hear about the baseball history and whatnot. It was super hot outside so sometimes it was hard to care, but I tried to enjoy it and I did.

After the tour we met Alana and  Steve (her hubby). Richard, Benny, and Dad went back to the hotel room while the rest of us went to do what Katie had been talking about alllll week long: kayaking in the Charles River. Out of our hotel room we could see the Charles River and Katie had been asking us to go kayaking for days since she could see everyone else doing it out the window. So we went for an hour long kayak ride. I was in a boat with Mom and Grace. Alana went with Steve. And Kelly went with Katie and Emily. We kayaked down to the Museum of Science and back. Katie loved it and our next stop was the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner.

After the Hard Rock Cafe we went back to Fenway for the Red Sox game. They played the Oriols and Red Sox won. It was a good game. Getting back to the hotel after the game was quite an adventure. The subway that we originally planning on getting was right outside the park (it was the subway we took to get there) was full. When I say full I mean FULL. The line was like a mile out of the subway station. So we thought maybe we could take a bus instead since the subway pass works for the buses as well. The bus line was crazy as well so we walked a ways down the street to get to a bus station farther away. We waited at the bus stop for at least a half hour. The bus just wasn't coming. We waited for  the bus forever but it never came. As we waited on the sidewalk with 4 tired yet hyper kids, we tried to make sure they didn't run into the street. So I'm sure the kids heard "don't go in the street" pleanty of times. Well, a few minutes went by and I noticed Katie staring at a man who was standing in the street. He wasn't really even in the street. He was on the gray part of the street that is the same color of the sidewalk. He was right at the edge of the sidewalk with his feet off of it and in the street. There were no cars around, but Katie still felt the need to say, "Umm, you're standing in the street." He quickly jumped up onto the sidewalk and said, "thank you! That was a close one." Sarcasm that a 5 year old wouldn't understand. In her eyes, she saved the man's life.