honeymoon - day 7

	today we spent the day in boston. the plan was to hit the MIT museum and then stroll on over to the harvard square oktoberfest and get hammered. we woke up a little before the museum opened so we went for a walk.
	we walked across the charles river, which is the one where you see all the snooty harvard kids rowing down the river and really healthy young college people jogging along it's banks.
	on the other side of the river is newbury st. which is like if you took georgetown and made it trendier. someone had this really awesome house with this even more awesome dog chillin' on the front steps.
	the MIT museum was pretty small, but pretty cool. the first floor was not that exciting but the second floor had all their cool robot displays. they had cog and kismet, a bunch of the old hopping and walking robots from the media lab and they happened to be showing an episode of scientific american where they were interviewing my AI professor from CMU.
	they also had a whole bunch of what i will call kinetic sculptures by arthur ganson where were all totally mesmerizing. for some reason, laura thinks people will be able to save the world with them. i just think they are kinda neat to look at.
	after the museum, it was beer-o-clock, or so we thought. time to head to the harvard square oktoberfest and get smashed, right? wrong. these bastards don't have any god damn beer at their oktoberfest. i mean, not to sound bitter, but wtf? no beer? after walking around in a state of bewilderment we found the john harvard brew pub and proceeded to take matters into our own hands.

honeymoon - day 6

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.