Day 5 Boston - Last day of Training and Sight Seeing

I could not believe it was already the last day of training. I got up and did my routine that I was greatly enjoying every morning - shower, coffee, get ready for class and breakfast was waiting.  No kids to get ready, no dropping off at daycare, no driving at all,  just extremely stress free mornings and then someone else cleaned and straightened my room and bathroom everyday.  I already knew I was going to miss it.  I was excited to finish our training and see what the last day had in store for us.  I already had numerous notes and couldn't wait to get back to work and start putting some of them into play.  Our class was also supposed to be done around 3pm which meant we would have time to go and do some sight seeing and actually catch a tour of something and go explore more of Boston.
We all made it through our last day of training and received our certificates.  At some point we had decided that we wanted to go and see the North Church and also we needed to get to the harbor and check it out.
After a pit stop at our rooms we met up in the lobby and it was time to head out and about.  I opted to change into my tennis shoes because my feet couldn't take another day of walking all over Boston in boots.  Everyone was in a good mood, it was Friday and we could do whatever we wanted and also got to go out on a Friday night. We decided we would head out for sightseeing and then I wanted to head back to the hotel to change my outfit for a night out on the town.  We headed out past the pot park again and towards the subway.  I decided after yesterdays incident that I would stand for this ride and hopefully not have another strange encounter, of course this wasn't the case.  We got onto the subway and I stood and grabbed onto a pole.  Two of the guys found a spot to sit and another was standing, but talking on the phone.  No sooner did we pull away when some guy who looked very down on his luck started talking to me.  I wasn't even looking in his direction and he was obviously talking right at me.  He asked me if I thought he should move into an apartment near so and so.  I politely addressed him and said I was not from here so I wouldn't honestly know.  I figured the conversation would be over, but no.  He then continued to ask me about moving into an apartment.  Should he move into an apartment?  I said that if he felt that it was the right move then he should.  He then asked me if I lived in apartment and I said no.  Oh, he said, so you have a house?  I felt like a schmuck, yes, I said I have a house because I have kids and stuff.  He continued to talk to me about housing and apartments and where he should live and what I thought about this and that.  It was the most awkward conversation and I'm pretty sure the guy had no money to rent an apartment.  It doesn't sound like it was that bad based on my writing, but you just never know with some people.  I looked around during our conversation and noticed that nobody else was talking to other people, why did he decide to talk to me. I again was done with the subway, get me off of here.  I was told later that I should be doing something, checking my phone, reading a book or paper, anything to look busy. We got off the subway at our stop and started heading to the North Church.
We saw some awesome things on the way to the North Church.  We also knew that we would only be able to get one tour in and we would be able to make the last one at the church.

The North Church

I was completely in awe while we were inside the North Church.  It wasn't so much as a tour, but they had a someone talking about the history.  We walked around and it was so old inside.  It had an ambiance to it.  I was definitely taken aback a little from being there.  We all kind of just walked around inside and did our own thing.

The pews.  These were very interesting.  They were boxes more or less and people used to have to rent them out or lease them out for a year at a time.  The rich were up front and were provided with pillows to sit on in their pews.  I've never seen anything like this in a church.  The church still has a sermon every Sunday, however they no longer rent out the spots.

After we left the church we walked down towards the harbor.  I walked by myself for a bit to just relax and think about the church and have my own little moment.  Once we got closer to the harbor we were back as a group.  We again walked by the amazing apartments.  This is a much better picture of them in the daytime.

We walked around a bit and checked out some of the harbor.  I think I thought I would be a little more excited about it, but it just wasn't that exciting I guess, just water? We walked down and checked it out and I snapped a few pictures. 

Me at the Harbor

I was supposed to be a little more excited,
so this was my more exciting to be here look.

While we were at the Harbor I had to go to the bathroom. We had been walking for a long time and hadn't stopped really anywhere. We decided to find somewhere to stop and grab a drink, it was Friday and Happy Hour!  I turned to the guys and said, I gotta take a piss.  This got me looks from all three of them.  I guess it was inappropriate for me to say and that only guys can say they have to take a piss.  So after a good laugh we walked over to a bar.  We found a place to sit and I jetted to the restroom.  We decided that instead of trying to break up the bill at each place again we would just buy rounds.  I bought the first 2 rounds at our first stop.  I was in a good mood and a little "beered" out so I started off with a couple of bacardi limon's.  We had a good time and then decided that it was still pretty early to continue boozing without some food so we headed off to find a restaurant.  The task was not an easy one.  It was a Friday during Lent for Catholics which left me with only a shortage of options and obviously I wasn't going to be eating any lobster nor did I want anything to filling.  We walked into one restaurant on the Harbor that had seafood and the place was packed with people and it stunk so badly in there, at least to me.  We didn't stay. We walked around and found another place and got seated fairly quickly.  We opted for beer as our appetizer while we slowly mulled over the menus.  I ended up ordering a plate of fries or something and we sat there for awhile just eating and talking and having beers. And nothing goes without incident for us of course.  Mark had ran to the restroom and I was talking to Derik and Jared was finishing his meal.  I was looking at Derik while I was talking and all of the sudden hear this clink, clink, clink and out of my mouth before even thinking I say to Jared - take it easy OCD.  He immediately looked at me in shock and then put his face in his hands and then mumbled something about trying to keep it under wraps all week and then looked right at me and said clear as a bell - Takes one to Know One.  I honestly hadn't seen what he had done and only heard him placing all of his utensils on his plate and just blurted it out.  Of course then I realize that I completely just busted him and then became aware that he obviously had noticed that I have my own issues too.  Derik sat there wondering what the hell we were talking about. He is the furthest from any type of OCD.  We sit and try to explain it to him and later I realize that all our conversation did was heighten my own awareness of my issues and made them worse after the trip.  We had a few more beers and then decided to start walking around Boston again.  We opted not to take the subway and walked all over the place not really having a care in the world. I really had no idea where we were or where we were going.  We did eventually end back up at the hotel and went into the bar for another beer.  While we were sitting there I decided since we were there that I was going to go and change into my Friday night outfit.  It was only around 9 or 10pm and I wasn't ready to slow down quite yet on a Friday, especially when we didn't have to get up early and didn't have class in the morning.  

We had a few more beers at the hotel bar and I'm pretty certain that not everyone took their turn buying their rounds, but oh well.  Mark and Derik decided they were done for the night and stayed at the hotel so Jared and I took off to go see what we could find to do.  Why is it whenever you are actually looking for somewhere to stop you seem to never find a place?  We walked around quite a bit and popped into different places for beers.  We eventually ended up at a swanky bar and grabbed a beer and shot.  It wasn't a very happening place, but we could hear extremely loud music coming from somewhere below us.  We asked the bartender what was going on downstairs and she said there was a Lebanese band and party going on and we should probably stay at the bar.  This peeked our curiosity of course and we headed downstairs.  This was the craziest bar scene.  The music was good and very loud and nothing I had ever heard before. We hung out for awhile and danced with all the crazy people at this party.  Later we realized that we were probably the only ones that were drinking at that party.  After we had enough of the loud music and strangeness of it all we headed back out to do more walking around.  Eventually we ended up at some downtown area and outside of a club.  We weren't going to go in anymore places (or they probably weren't going to let us in because it was close to closing time?) There were a few bouncers outside of this club and we kind of just hung out for a bit and were people watching.  Apparently at this late in the night my common sense was not at its best.  I kept people watching and couldn't quite put my finger on what was going on with this club and the people coming in and out of it.  I was joking around with the bouncers and must have finally said something and they told me it was a gay club.  Aw, it was all coming together and making sense.  It was some good people watching sitting outside of that place.  It was definitely getting late and time to head back to the hotel, but we had walked all over the place without paying any attention and where in the hell were we?  It was actually pretty comical.  We had no idea where we were.  I already know that I am directionally challenged, always, so to me this was no surprise.  I pulled out my Iphone and told Siri to take me back to the hotel.  Jared pulled out his Iphone and pulled up a map and was leading us back to the hotel.  This may not have been the safest walk of my life since anyone who passed us could probably tell we were not from their looking at us both holding out our Iphones and attempting to go somewhere.  We did eventually make it back to the hotel safe and sound and it was time to definitely go to bed.  It had been a long adventurous day.