Boston

I have been slacking with blogging for the last few months.... shame on me! As a holiday season approaches (what happened to 2011? Why is it going so fast?), I hope my work volume will decrease a bit and I can make some time to record what has been happening, including Misha's 6th birthday in September. But anyways, I am in Boston to attend the annual dental conference. Fall serves Boston very well - changes of colors of leaves are just so beautiful with background of old brick houses.

Although schedule is usually quite tight during the conference, we (I am with a senior studentt) found time this morning to do Freedom Trail. Freedom Trail is a self walking tour of 19 historical sites in Boston, including Boston Common, Site of Boston Massacre, and Paul Revere house. The picture above is also one of them, Granary Burying Ground. Spooky even after the Halloween! But if you walk closely, you will see tombs of famous people from 1600s and 1700s, such as Samuel Adams (not a bottle of beer!), John Hankock, Paul Revera, etc. It is quite neat to be able to feel that history was made right here. I never learned American History well, and I look forward to learning more with the Girls in the coming years.

And lastly, we visited Boston Public Library. This was almost a museum itself. Look at this gorgeous wall! Lucky Bostonians - it is like studying at Hogwarts in Harry Potter. For the next 3 days, I will be sitting from 8am to 6pm every day to learn dentistry (yeah! and sigh at the same time...). I hope I learn lots of useful information that I can apply to my daily work. Enjoy the fall, everyone! I am sure Kyoto looks beautiful now, too. It is about time to visit my home country.