Boston Babymoon: Favorites

Sharing our trip favorites today from our trip to Boston this past weekend.

1) Favorite thing you ate
2) Favorite thing you did
3) Favorite thing you got

Dan:
- Ate: Hot buttered Lobster roll
- Did: Freedom Trail
- Got: Photo strip

Steph:
- Ate: Lobster tail pastry
- Did: Granary Graveyard on the Freedom Trail
- Got: Squished pennies

We only packed backpacks so we were not planning on bringing souvenirs back but we always pick-up squished pennies to add to my collection and we get a Christmas ornament to document the trip. AND, if we're lucky enough to find a photo booth we do that too. Photo strip, pennies, and ornament...all small and compact and they don't add to the "stuff" that we don't have space for.

I like to keep ticket stubs and other small mementos from the places we visit and put them in a memory box. And we also got our National Parks passport stamped several times (which is free).

And since I mentioned that Boston was expensive, here is a breakdown of what things cost in that photo.

3/4 of those pennies cost $1.01, each. I have never seen a penny machine that costs more than $.51 cents. The photo strip was $7. That ornament was a staggering $25 which I deeply regretted. The aquarium and IMAX were $32 per ticket. The Boston Tea Party museum was $25 per ticket. Dan's hot buttered lobster roll was $21 and the lobster tail was close to $10. We shared one scoop of ice cream for an afternoon treat and that one scoop of plain vanilla ice cream was $6.

Now, we live in NYC so we are no strangers to overpriced tourist traps but we were surprised by the prices in that city. We did get some good deals. Our Airbnb saved us a ton over a hotel. The pizza at Regina's was very affordable and our average dinners were around $50 each, both nights. The bus is always way cheaper than airfare as well. So overall we didn't spend a ton and it wasn't unmanageable, just not quite what we expected.