So I spent this past Wednesday through Sunday in the wicked-cool city of Boston. If you didn't know that, one of two things is true:
A. You didn't read my last post.
-OR-
2. You read my last post but didn't get the photo references (in which case, I'll have Tommy come hit you on the head with a tack hammer because...well, you know). (by the way, the first - and best - photo shows up now on that post)
The AMI conference was held at the Cambridge Marriott - right next to MIT and all that good stuff. Pricey, sure. But these rooms were aMAYzing. I had a king sized bed all to myself. Every night I slept in a big X, just because I could. Here is a picture of me sitting on my gi-freaking-normous bed, studying for my certification exam whilst simultaneously watching the Simpsons on my widescreen, flat-panel tv. I'm not a fancy person - my family are Super 8, Holiday Inn Express, share-a-two-person-tile-floored-room-in-Florence-between-four-people-so-you-all-have-to-sleep-crosswise-on-the-full-sized-bed kind of people. It was an experience.
The view from my room. Yowza.
I got into Boston around 6am on Wednesday morning. I spent that whole day walking the Freedom Trail in the sweltering heat. It was 104 with crazy-high humidity. After a red-eye flight and six hours of walking around in that, I was not a pretty sight. It was really interesting though. You follow this red line on the sidewalk for like 2 1/2 miles and you see all these Revolutionary War sites. In the picture below you can kinda see the red line I followed (on the right). Directly behind me (so, not in the picture) is the church made famous by Paul Revere - where they flashed the "One if by land, Two if by sea" lanterns.
Old Ironsides (USS Constitution)
The conference itself was really good. Lots of discussions and workshops and idea sharing. One of my illustrations won an award in the Salon - kind of a big deal, so that was exciting. I also got to see some of my classmates and friends, which was nice after six weeks of relative solitude.
So anyway. Boston gets high marks in Kristen's Grande Tome of Top Notch Cities. Verily.
Oh, and I thought the Borders in Phoenix was fancy. Check THIS one out.
Ho. Lee. Cre-ap.
*Beantown refers to early Bostonian merchants' habit for making baked beans with imported molasses. Thank you, Wikipedia.
1 comment:
I've been on that red line....an 8 year old can follow big red lines...fun!
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