March 21, 2019 - Tanya in Denver Day 1 and Elisa Gets Tickets to"Hamilton & Washington: Secrets of the Past" Walking Tour & Plans Trip to Boston

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"Hamilton & Washington: Secrets of the Past" Walking Tour

Well, happy Tuesday to ya!!

​I'm catching up on some household tours today, while my dear cousin is enjoying her first day in Denver.  I'm hoping to hear from her at some point, since it's been a few days since we chatted.

I'm beginning to get my Summer schedule finalized and planned, one event and daycation at a time!

Today I ordered tickets for me and Kelsey to go on the "Hamilton and Washington: Secrets of the Past Walking Tour."  My girl Kelsey is a crazy, nutty Alexander Hamilton fan, and a big history buff. So even though this is walking tour, she was more than stoked about planning to experience it.

We're all set for Saturday June 8th, which is actually not that far off!  So many of the dates were sold out!  I guess, with the popularity of Lin Manuel Miranda's Broadway show, Hamilton, people have a renewed interest in anything related to this historic American figure.

In other news...
I'll be blocking off a few dates to take a few overnight trips.  One of these will be Boston and I haven't as of yet figured out where else we will go.

One thing I'm thinking is that we might take the train instead of driving to Boston.  Our last trip to Boston was in November of 2015.  

It was the girls' first time visiting and we really had a fun time boppin' around the city, eating and even taking in a show at the Boston Opera House!

FANEUIL HALL (c) travelincousins.com

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Boston Opera House - going to see Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (c) travelincousins.com

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On the 50th Floor of the Prudential Tower Skywalk (c) travelincousins.com

Fenway Park, Home of the Red Sox (c) travelincousins.com

And speaking of Boston, here are
​15 Facts about Boston!!

1. The Boston Common has been around since 1634 and is the oldest public park in the country!
2. The Boston University Bridge is one of the only places in the world where a bat can sail under a train going under a car that is driving under a plane!
3. Fenway Park opened in 1912 and is the oldest original major league baseball stadium still in use.
4. Boston was the first city to have a police department (1838)
5. Boston had the first ever U.S. mail route (1692)
6. Boston also had the first library (1653)
7. Boston built the first subway ever in the U.S. (1897)
8. Alexander Graham Bell made the very first phone call in history (March 10, 1876) from his Boston machine shop.
9. The largest at theft in U.S. history occured in Boston on March 18th, 1990. When 12 paintings collectively worth $100 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by two thieves posing as police officers.
10. Dipping 90 feet below the earth’s surface, the Ted Williams Tunnel is the deepest in North America.
11. In 1967, race official Jock Semple attempted to forcefully remove Kathrine Switzer from the Boston Marathon because she was a woman. 5 Years later, women were officially allowed to participate.
12. Boston’s reputation as “the Athens of America” derives in large part from the teaching and research activities of more than 100 colleges and universities located in the Greater Boston Area, with more than 250,000 students attending college in Boston and Cambridge alone.
13. The population of Boston in 2013 was 645,966
14. Boston is the 4th most densely populated city in the country.
15. More than 18 million people visit Boston every year.

See ya all tomorrow!!
-Travelin' Elisa
xoxo