Cheers......Boston

A beautiful day in a beautiful city.

A second day trip was to Boston.  We took the commuter train from Newburyport into Boston (about an hour trip through bright fall foliage and cute, old New England towns).  The Boston stop is connected to Boston Gardens, so Pat got his sports fix for the day!  The weather was, as usual, Indian summer perfect.  We were only there for the day, so we took one of those hop on-hop off buses, rode the entire circuit, and then got off and walked to the places we wanted to spend time at.  One of those places was the “Cheers” bar.  You know, from the old sit-com “Cheers”.  The outside is just like the pictures in the show and the show was based on that bar; however, the inside is different.  The owner caught so much grief from tourists since it wasn’t “the same” that he remodeled a second floor to match the LA set where the interiors of the show were actually shot.  Anyway, Pat and I decided to have a drink at the “original” bar downstairs.  So we are sitting at the bar and two women come in and sit a couple seats away from us around the corner.  One of the woman looked exactly like someone I met on my very first day of work at the COE (Ann Privasky, clinic administrator of CDRC in the Clinical Services Building who retired 10-15 years ago).  I thought:  can’t be; I’m in the “Cheers” bar in Boston for heaven’s sake!  However, Ann is a very distinctive looking woman; really short hair, always very put together; and this woman looked just like her.  Then I heard them talking and they sound just like Pat and me (and not like anyone else in the bar!).  Anyway……..it was her!  What a small world and I guess that bar really fits the theme song that includes the line, “….where everyone knows your name…” it was really true for me!  We thoroughly enjoyed our brief time in Boston and would like to come back and explore more in depth.