Lots of Exercise Yesterday

I got a LOT of exercise yesterday. B and I walked around Boston, got a bit turned around on the subway, which caused us to have to go up and down several sets of stairs many times. My thighs and legs were aching more last night than after any of my gym sessions…

It was really cold there yesterday too, which means extra calories burned. We missed the bus, so I ended up driving us to the Wellington station, where I parked and we took the Orange line to North Station, where we then took the Green line to the Boston Common. B took a picture of me, which I’m debating posting here.

So then, we watched the ice skaters for a while, then walked in the 20 degrees (give or take) all the way to the Prudential mall, where I went to Saks and bought some new sunglasses. Then from there, we walked over to Mass Ave, then ended up near the Boston Symphony. We decided to try and find Fenway on the Green line, and got kind of turned around. The subway was packed to capacity every time we got on, which sucked. A cute guy told us that we had to take the D train to get to Fenway. So we did.

More stairs, more walking… we finally found Boston Billiards on Brookline, and went there for a couple hours and shot a couple games of pool. By this point in the day, I had only had 1/3 of a protein bar and the 3/4 of a sub sandwich. It was 8pm by then and we still weren’t hungry, but decided to get a couple of appetizers anyway. I had three mozzarella sticks and 1 buffalo wing.

From there, we walked over to Jillian’s, which was really fun but too crowded. So we left after having a drink (a seabreeze), then we went a couple doors down to a place called Bill’s (something or other). A heavy metal band was playing, can’t recall the name of it! Then we went to a final place back on Brookline. Finally, it was time to go home… I had switched to drinking water for the last couple hours of the night because I knew I had to be sober for the drive home from Revere.

Thank goodness SOMEONE was sober… B had had a few too many and actually fell flat on his behind on the Green line back to North Station! Kind of embarrassing… we had to switch to another train, then yet another since they are doing construction on the orange line.

Anyway… that was my adventure in Boston yesterday. My legs are hurting pretty badly today. Around four hours of walking, countless stairways up and down… great exercise! I’m taking it easy today though – no gym. As a matter of fact, I’m probably going to just stay home tonight, for the first time in a while.