saturday morning we left chatham and headed for salem, ma. we were going to head into boston and go on the sam adam's brewery tour but decided to rearrange our schedule a little bit, which turned out to be a pretty bad idea. apparently salem is the place to be for the entire month of october and as we rolled into town we were greeted with bumper to bumper traffic and $20 parking for their october harvest festival or whatever it was. we were hoping to go to the witch museum and pirate museum but they had lines around the block waiting to get in. we did manage to see the house on the left, which is the "house of seven gables" and apparently is famous and in some book. i had to google "gable" to figure out precisely what that meant. after fighting crowds for a long time, i called the 800 number for the sam adam's brewery to find out that they were already closed for the day and not open the next day.we left salem and headed for boston, where the roads make even less sense than the mixing bowl and the new woodrow wilson bridge interchanges. we checked into our hotel in cambridge to find a gay jewish wedding going on in the courtyard. we sat for a while, watched the last few minutes of forrest gump on hbo and then hopped into a cab to visit my friend rahul and his wife emily and to check out their new house and get dinner. i had spoken with rahul earlier in the day about what to do for dinner and made some flippant remark about ethiopean food, which is how we ended up at an ethiopean restaurant for dinner. rahul and emily treated us as part of their wedding gift and it was quite delicious.
after dinner we hopped on the T, rode back to the hotel and passed out.
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