Boston OpSail 2012

This is USCGC Eagle. She was in Boston as part of OpSail 2012, and she escorted the USS Constitution on her annual turnaround cruise in the harbor. (The Constitution, aka Old Ironsides, lives in the Charlestown Navy Yard, and spends the rest of the year moored there as an educational tool and tourist destination. She is turned around every year to point the opposite direction so that she weathers evenly.)

( SHIPS! )

TOTEM

Today's trip to see the ships marked my second trip into Boston in less than a week. Both times I had to drive because my car has air conditioning and rikibeth's does not. We weren't supposed to be going to the city this past Saturday, but our trip to see Cirque du Soleil's TOTEM on June 23 was aborted when Riki's car went crazy 20 minutes into the trip. We made it home, and it has since been fixed, but UGH.

( A (very) brief review... )