Nov 29, 30

In the evening of Nov 28 we went to Watertown, MA to be up early the next morning for a foray into Boston.

The Big Dig

Boston is trying to fix some of its traffic problems by burying them and hoping they go away. The effort is known as The Big Dig, overbudget and snarling traffic even worse than before while it is in progress.

Here's some traffic that is being snarled.

As I understand it, all the stuff on top will go away when the dig is complete.

Note the bridge support. Apparently they had to remove the support to dig underneath, but they still had to prop the bridge up with something.

They are adding a new suspension bridge that gets you underneath things. They light it up purple at night.

You know, I'm not sure if everything elevated goes away. Here's some of the mass transit.

Bruins Hockey

Our first event was the Bruins-Canadiens game at the Fleet Center. Its a train station with a sports arena. Boston has no space for individual things.

We came to see this - MTL on the 29th.

This is the game ticket. I'm in the balcony. I wonder what that means...

The Bruins (yellow) and Canadiens (white) warming up. Wow. We're pretty high.

Wait a minute. We can't really get much higher...

You can tell it was the day after Thanksgiving. Yes, those are turkeys wearing hockey helmets.

Note that the zamboni are branded with beer ads. You just don't get that in college hockey, where it would actually make more sense.

The national anthems of the US and Canada were sung by that guy.

The opening faceoff.

Random hockey pics.

Some of the fans were pretty nuts. Saw one with a foam puck on his head, another wearing oversized bear claws, and these kids in front of us with the hair.

All done. 4-2 Bruins. Good game.

As we were leaving they started to change the arena for the Celtics game that night - the seats in the metal rows go away (they are folding them now), the glass and sideboards go out, and they put floor over the ice.

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