A long time ago in a state far far away...

Tim and I revised our plans. We decided not to go to Montreal, mostly because we couldn't get tickets for the hockey game and it's full of French-Canadians. We ended up going to Boston (Mass, not Lincolnshire). I guess the sad truth is that we were swayed by Boston because the Museum of Science had an exhibition on called Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination. It was basically a load of old props, models and costumes from all 6 movies and some science stuff about how possible the science in the films is. For the most part, impossible. It was really cool to see some of the old costumes from the originals, like Chewbacca and C-3PO and I was really surprised to see how large some of the models were. They also had a load of child orientated play areas where we got to make our robots and see if they worked, mostly they didn't. We took a look around the rest of the science museum, there was a huge T-Rex which I managed to completely miss. I liked the maths area where they had models of certain maths principles which I still won't even pretend to understand, but they looked cool.

The next day we went into the city to see the other really famous part of Boston, the Cheers bar. Yes, we went to the bar where everyone knows our name. We didn't see Sam or Norm, but we did drink from branded Cheers glasses. There are actually 2 Cheers bars, the one that they filmed the outside of, and a new one in a mall where the layout is the same as the TV show. We went to the real one, then looked at and ran away from the fake one. Boston was a pretty cool city, I never realised how close Harvard and MIT are I guess it must be the smartest city in the Country, if not the world!